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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...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
- "
cephalium" when
mature – a
dense m**** of
areoles covered with wool and
spines at the tip of the stem.
Flowers are
produced only from the
cephalium. Melocactus...
- a
cephalium (reddish
brown wool,)
running down from the
crown (top of the plant) on one side, of the branches,
later in a
superficial dome
cephalium. It...
- flowers, and are
covered with
spines and
white hair. In adulthood, a
cephalium sometimes appears,
similar to the
Mexican genus Cephalocereus. Only the...
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branches only
after several years. It
flowers at
night from a
lateral cephalium after several years.
Woolly hairs have been used for
pillow filling in...
