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Cephalium is a
frequently brightly coloured structure of wool and
bristle at the
growing tip of
certain cacti. It is most
commonly found on
cacti of the...
- the
correct genus name.
Mature plants are
easily recognizable by
their cephalium, a wool- and bristle-coated
structure at the apex of the plant, containing...
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surrounded by an area of sound-absorbent and
woolly hairs called the
cephalium,
which absorbs the bat's
ultrasound instead.
Flowers are also specialized...
- are
named after the Turk's cap cactus,
Melocactus intortus,
whose red
cephalium resembles the fez hat worn by
Turks in the late
Ottoman Empire. The first...
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Islands in the
Turks and
Caicos are
named after this cactus,
whose red
cephalium resembles the fez worn by
Turkish men in the late
Ottoman Empire. A stylised...
- This
species is one of the only ones in the
genus Pilosocereus without a
cephalium Flowers grow
directly out the
areoles Fruits are
globose with red flesh...
- wide, 3-4
millimeters wide, and have
brownish hairs on
mature stems. The
cephalium is very thin
consisting of 3-4
centimeter long hair of
golden brownish...
- by its
glaucous appearance and its
often whitish-yellow
cephalium. The
color of its
cephalium varies slightly based on po****tion. Braun, P.; Machado...
- apex of the
adult plants,
there is a
wooly cephalium,
white or
shaded with
yellow or grey. The
terminal cephalium, up to 4
centimeters high, is
slightly depressed...
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erect and semi-erect
columnar cacti from Brazil.
These species develop a
cephalium with wool and bristles. They are
common to the
inselbergs of the Brazilian...
