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Pilosocereus millspaughii, commonly called the Key Largo tree cactus, [citation needed] is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to Florida, The Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. [1] It was first described by Nathaniel Lord Britton in 1909 as Cephalocereus millspaughii. [2]
Pilosocereus robinii is a species of cactus known by the common name Key tree-cactus. [2] It is native to the Florida Keys in the United States. [3] It also occurs in Western Cuba and the Northern Bahamas. It has been erroneously reported from Puerto Rico, [4] the Virgin Islands, [4] and Mexico. [2]
Consolea is a genus of cactus, named after Italian botanist Michelangelo Console. Members of the genus are native to the West Indies and Florida in the United States . Members of this genus consist of trees up to 10 m in height; they are dioecious or subdioecious.
Rising sea levels have led to the extinction of the Key Largo tree cactus, highlighting the urgent threat to coastal ecosystems worldwide.
The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in 2016, with many stems chlorotic and/or collapsed.
The species in question is the Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii)—a tube-like cactus plant that can grow up to 20 feet tall.
This cactus is a species of tree [4] which grows up to eight feet/2.4 meters tall. The stem segments are up to 40 centimeters long and are "copiously armed" with pink spines which can exceed 12 centimeters in length. The spines on the trunk all point downward and are the largest spines on the plant.
Key Largo (Spanish: Cayo Largo) is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and is the largest section of the keys, at 33 miles (53 km) long. It is one of the northernmost of the Florida Keys in Monroe County , and the northernmost of the keys connected by U.S. Highway 1 (the Overseas Highway ).