Medieval Castle Cactus 10 Seeds - Cereus monstrosa
CACTUS: Cactus, the common name for a family of desert plants. The plural is cacti or cactuses. Most species bear sharp, needlelike spines, which protect the plants from foraging desert animals. Cacti are famed for their ability to resist drought, which they owe to the fact that moisture from inside the plant evaporates very slowly through the plant's skin.Cacti grow in hundreds of different shapes. The fibrous, juicy stems may be globular, cylindrical, branched, trailing and vinelike, ribbed, grooved, or knob-bearing. Only two species have true leaves. The rest of the 2,000 species are leafless.Description: This is a monstrose form of the commonly-available Cereus peruvianus. Many cacti and other succulents have a crested (referred to as cristate) or monstrose form, where the growth is abnormal in some way, being deformed into a cockscomb, or with various lumps or knobs that are different from the normal growth patterns of the plants as they would ordinarily appear. They are not sick or diseased, and you cannot make it happen on an otherwise normal plant. It just sort of spontaneously arises and is perpetuated via cuttings and grafts, as seedlings are most commonly normal if seeds are produced. Bugs don t cause it, nor does cold weather, etc. No one knows exactly why some plants do this, but they do, and many people collect them as a subset of their normal cacti and succulents. Aside from the odd knobbed growth, the plant is otherwise normal and has flowers just like the regular Cereus peruvianus.