Eulychnia breviflora Phil.

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Origin and Habitat: The Copao (Eulychnia breviflora) has a wide range of around 25,000 km2 confined to the coastal Atacama desert of northern Chile.
Altitude: It grows along the coastal fog zone at an altitude from sea level to 400(-850?) metres, where it forms extensive forests.
Habitat and Ecology: It grows in coastal hills (lomas costeras) and thorny scrub on sandy soils in areas where very little else grows. It's a very drought tolerant species. Despite the lack of rain where it lives, the extreme aridity is attenuated by the frequent, often dense, coastal fogs. The fog tends to concentrate in the form of a cloud band. It shows a recurrent pattern; usually it is overcast in the early mornings, the clouds dissipating during the late morning and returning during the late afternoons. Cacti near the coast are often covered with lichens.

Common Names include:
SPANISH (Español): Copao

Description: Eulychnia breviflora is a candelabriform or arborescent columnar succulent, much branched from below, often with a well developed woody trunk. It has many ribs which are set with large, white, woolly tufts accented by long central spines.
Stems: Nearly erect, 3-7 m tall, 8-11 cm in diameter, greyish-green to dark green.
Ribs: 10-17 straight, somewhat tuberculate, sometime furrowed between areoles.
Areoles: Close set, whit heavy wool and hairs.
Spines: 10-30, often poorly differentiated as central and radials, brown turning dull grey to chalky-white as they ages.
Central spines: 1-2 stout, erect 5-20 cm long.
Radial spines: 0,5-2 cm long, diverging.
Flowers: Bell shaped, white to pale rose up to 2 cm long, segment mostly white with a darker midstripe. They develop from very woolly buds filled with dense brown to white wool and bristles near the top of the plant. Areoles of floral tube and pericarpel without stiff bristles. Tube densely scaly, and shorter than the pericarpel.
Blooming season: Summer, the flowers stay open day and night.
Fruits: Globose to pear shaped, up to 5-8 in diameter, fleshy, acid, especially hairy when young. The fruit is edible, but not very tasty.

Eulychnia breviflora (llifle.com)

 

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