Taxon: Echinocereus enneacanthus Engelm.

Species on the following lists:

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

Common names:

• banana cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• cob cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• prostrate hedgehog cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• purple pitaya   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• strawberry cactus   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• strawberry hedgehog cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• alicoche   (Source: F NAmer ) – Spanish
  
• pitaya   (Source: F NAmer ) – Spanish
  
• tuvad kägelkaktus   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
• 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)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas [s.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas

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.
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hunt, D. et al., eds. 2006. The new cactus lexicon.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Echinocereus enneacanthus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Echinocereus enneacanthus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Echinocereus enneacanthus.

Check other web resources for Echinocereus enneacanthus Engelm.:

• 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
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images 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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