Taxon: Stenocereus thurberi (Engelm.) Buxb.

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

See also subordinate taxa:

• Stenocereus thurberi subsp. littoralis (no accessions)
• Stenocereus thurberi subsp. thurberi (no accessions)

Common names:

• organ-pipe cactus   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• órgano marismeña   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• mehuelé   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• pitahauya   (Source: F NAmer ) – Spanish
  
• pitahaya dulce   (Source: Cornucopia ) – Spanish
  
• pitayo dulce   (Source: Cact Mex ) – Spanish
  
• orgelkaktus   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia; Cactus Mex)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Baja Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family.
• Benson, L. 1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada.
• Bravo-Hollis, H. & H. Sánchez-Mejorada. Las Cactáceas de México, vol. 1 - 1978, vols. 2,3 - 1991 [mentions].
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. [= Marshallocereus thurberi].
• Hunt, D. 1992. CITES Cactaceae checklist.
• Pinkava, D. J. 1995. Cactaceae, part 1. Cactus Family: the cereoid cactus. J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci. 29:11.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Stenocereus thurberi.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Stenocereus thurberi.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Stenocereus thurberi.

Synonyms:

• Cereus thurberi Engelm. [≡ Stenocereus thurberi subsp. thurberi]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Cereus thurberi var. littoralis K. Brandegee [≡ Stenocereus thurberi subsp. littoralis]
  
• Lemaireocereus thurberi (Engelm.) Britton & Rose [≡ Stenocereus thurberi subsp. thurberi]
  

Check other web resources for Stenocereus thurberi (Engelm.) Buxb.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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