Acanthocereus tetragonus (L.) Hummelinck
- Common Name: Night-blooming Cereus, Pitahaya
- Family: Cactaceae Juss.
- Synonym(s): Cactus tetragonus L.
- Country of Origin: Caribbean, Central America, northern South America
- Uses: Fruits and young stems are edible. Forms dense thickets and can be grown as a living fence.
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Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: core eudicots
- Order: Caryophyllales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Cactaceae
- SubFamily: Cactoideae
- Tribe: Phyllocacteae
- SubTribe: Echinocereinae
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