560 — Number of the plant

at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7

Classification

► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

► Subclass Caryophyllidae

► Order Caryophyllales

► Family Cactaceae - Cactus family

Synonyms

Common names

Hedge cactus (English)

Cactus (French)

Cactus des haies (French)

Cierge (French)

 

Цереус (Russian)

Description

Large white night-blooming many-petalled cup-shaped flower with numerous white stamens tinged light green towards the base, surrounded by light green sepals that arise from a sturdy green stalklike tube; borne singly. A succulent perennial herb with prominent four- to six- angled stems bearing numerous clusters of thin needlelike spines.