The tall stems branch out from the cactus base to form a fence like cluster of tall cylindrical posts usually with 5 or 6 pronounced ridges.
Mexican fence post cactus fruit.
Chilayo mexican fence post organ cactus órgano.
Along these ridges run symmetrical rows of small white thorns that make the mexican fence post look striped from a distance.
The cactus develops stout cylindrical stems with ribs over its lifetime.
Following the bloom cycle it develops spiny yellowish to red fruit with black seeds.
Other common names are.
Mexican fence post cactus fence post cactus central mexico pipe organ organ pipe cactus mexican organ pipe cactus organ pipe organo.
Flowers are pink to greenish and up to 1 6 inches 4 cm long.
Another synonym is marginatocereus marginatus.
Use it as a desert accent or specimen.
Plant it against a tall wall as a vertical accent or create a living fence from cuttings of this plant.
Pachycereus marginatus is a species of plant in the family cactaceae.
The spiny fruit is yellowish to reddish and 1 6 inches 4 cm in diameter.
The picture shows two stems but you can choose one or the other or both either 13 or 14.
Your mexican fence post should reach 12 to 20 feet in height as it matures.
Stems are 3 to 4 inches 9 10 cm in diameter with ribs 5 to 7 in 13 18 cm.
On feb 17 2004 palmbob from acton ca zone 8b wrote.
Grows to 20 tall.
Large selection of cactus and succulents.
Please be aware that if you purchase both the shipping may be higher due to increased weight.
Those new offshoots emerge from the ground and then grow quickly.
Mexican fencepost cactus rooted plant 14 and 13 the plant you will receive is a healthy mexican fencepost cactus growing well.
Sometimes called mexican fencepost cactus it has columnar trunks that grow slowly to 12 feet 3 7 m and may reach 20 feet 6 1 m in height.
The mexican fence post is one of the most attractive and cleanest looking cacti available.
So much so some would say it s a good lookin cactus.
The many seeds are black.
In spring the cactus produces tubular pinkish red flowers that are very showy.
Very neat straight up and down column sometimes branching cactus with small spines along linear rows up and down the plant.
Hardy to 25 f.
Living cactus fences and the hardy mexican fence post cactus on sale october 2017 40 off the deep green columnar trunks of the mexican fence post catches the eyes.
The mexican fence post also.
