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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]
Rising sea levels have led to the extinction of the Key Largo tree cactus, highlighting the urgent threat to coastal ecosystems worldwide. A Species Has Gone Extinct in the Keys, and It's the ...
The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in 2016, with many stems chlorotic and/or collapsed. ... Hurricane Irma, which walloped the island ...
Relentlessly submerged by hurricanes and king tides while being feasted on by animals in search of freshwater, the Key Largo tree cactus is a worrying glimpse into the future of similar coastal ...
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 ).
Pilosocereus (from Latin, "hairy cereus") is a genus of cactus native to the Neotropics. Tree cactus is a common name for Pilosocereus species. [2] The genera Caerulocereus and Pseudopilocereus are synonyms of this genus. [1] The commonly cultivated Pilosocereus pachycladus (syn. Pilosocereus azureus) is a blue cactus with hairy areoles that ...
The Key deer is restricted to pine rocklands and tropical hardwood hammocks on Big Pine Key. Both the Key Largo cotton mouse and the Key Largo woodrat are endemic to tropical hardwood hammocks on Key Largo in the upper Florida Keys. The Stock Island tree snail is historically known only from hammocks on Stock Island and Key West.