Genus Aporocactus (Noun)
Meaning
Small genus of epiphytic cacti of Mexico.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Aporocactus is considered a monotypic genus, but in some classifications, it is divided into several species.
- The genus Aporocactus martianus, epiphytic cacti resembling the flowers of orchids, is found only in tropical America.
- Pereskia is not always regarded as the earliest diverging genus within Cactaceae; one analysis placed Aporocactus in that position.
- These Aporocactus hybrids offer flowering at the tops, they would fall with flowers - a whole branch lined with beautiful flowers.
- The name 'Aporocactus' comes from the Greek aporos, "unaccessable or unreachable," and akaktos, "prickle."