Pachycereus weberi
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| Internal ID | UUID643ff83a595e3162114070 |
| Scientific name | Pachycereus weberi |
| Authority | (J.M.Coult.) Backeb. |
| First published in | Cactaceae 4: 2152. 1960. |
General Uses Top
Suggest a correction!Common products:
• Fresh or cooked fruits sold locally; processed into atole and jelly-like conserves (“dulce de cardón”).
Food and beverages (non-medicinal):
• Ripe fruits are consumed fresh, roasted, or boiled in Oaxaca and Puebla.
• Fruit pulp is processed into atole, conserves, and syrup; in some localities, the fruits are traditionally mixed with maize to make fermented beverages.
• Ripe seeds (embryos) are eaten roasted.
Wood and fiber:
• Dead or desiccated stems are used locally as fencing and to make simple doors, buttressed posts, and tool handles; wood is light and low-density.
Fragrance and cosmetics:
• No uses documented.
Properties relevant to use:
• Fruits have high sugar content when ripe, enabling straightforward syrup and conserve preparation by concentrating pulp or adding sugar to cooked pulp.
Standards and regulation:
• No specific standards or regulatory frameworks documented for this taxon.
Sustainability and sourcing:
• Regenerates naturally from seed and vegetative fragments; localized, low-intensity harvest (fruit collection) reduces impact compared to stem cutting.Wild harvest is typically non-destructive when fruits are picked without felling stems.
Synonyms Top
| Scientific name | Authority | First published in |
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| Lemaireocereus weberi | (J.M.Coult.) Britton & Rose | in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 426. 1909. |
| Pachycereus gigas | (Backeb.) Backeb. | Cactaceae 4: 2154. 1960. |
| Pachycereus weberi var. gigas | (Backeb.) P.V.Heath | in Calyx 2: 107. 1992. |
| Pachycereus grandis var. gigas | Backeb. | in Beitr. Sukkulentenk. Sukkulentenpflege 1941: 2. 1941. |
| Ritterocereus weberi | (J.M.Coult.) Backeb. | in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 23: 121. 1951. |
| Stenocereus weberi | (J.M.Coult.) Buxb. | in Bot. Stud. 12: 101. 1961. |
| Cereus candelabrum | K.Schum. | Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 106. 1897. |
| Cereus weberi | J.M.Coult. | in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 3(7): 410. 1896. |
| Cereus belieuli | K.Schum. | Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 107. 1897. |
| Cereus pugionifer | K.Schum. | Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 107. 1897. |
Germination/Propagation Top
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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top
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- Doubtful data
- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
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Mexico
- Mexico Central
- Mexico Gulf
- Mexico Northeast
- Mexico Southwest
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Mexico
Links to other databases Top
Suggest others/fix!| Database | ID/link to page |
|---|---|
| World Flora Online | wfo-0000398357 |
| Tropicos | 5107325 |
| KEW | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:179833-2 |
| The Plant List | kew-2414439 |
| Open Tree Of Life | 145729 |
| NCBI Taxonomy | 154438 |
| IUCN Red List | 151785 |
| IPNI | 179833-2 |
| iNaturalist | 274257 |
| GBIF | 3960339 |
| EOL | 5184527 |
| USDA GRIN | 448413 |
| Wikipedia | Pachycereus_weberi |
Genomes (via NCBI) Top
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Scientific Literature Top
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| Evaluation of three methods for betanin quantification in fruits from cacti | Sandate-Flores L, Rodríguez-Hernández DV, Rostro-Alanis M, Melchor-Martínez EM, Brambila-Paz C, Sosa-Hernández JE, Parra-Saldívar R, Rodríguez-Rodríguez J, Iqbal HM | MethodsX | 29-May-2022 |
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| Fruit Size and Structure of Zoochorous Trees: Identifying Drivers for the Foraging Preferences of Fruit-Eating Birds in a Mexican Successional Dry Forest | Almazán-Núñez RC, Alvarez-Alvarez EA, Sierra-Morales P, Rodríguez-Godínez R | Animals (Basel) | 23-Nov-2021 |
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| Traditional Fermented Beverages of Mexico: A Biocultural Unseen Foodscape | Ojeda-Linares C, Álvarez-Ríos GD, Figueredo-Urbina CJ, Islas LA, Lappe-Oliveras P, Nabhan GP, Torres-García I, Vallejo M, Casas A | Foods | 09-Oct-2021 |
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| The Widened Pipe Model of plant hydraulic evolution | Koçillari L, Olson ME, Suweis S, Rocha RP, Lovison A, Cardin F, Dawson TE, Echeverría A, Fajardo A, Lechthaler S, Martínez-Pérez C, Marcati CR, Chung KF, Rosell JA, Segovia-Rivas A, Williams CB, Petrone-Mendoza E, Rinaldo A, Anfodillo T, Banavar JR, Maritan A | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A | 26-May-2021 |
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| QSAR-Based Virtual Screening of Natural Products Database for Identification of Potent Antimalarial Hits | Ferreira LT, Borba JV, Moreira-Filho JT, Rimoldi A, Andrade CH, Costa FT | Biomolecules | 19-Mar-2021 |
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| Functional Attributes and Anticancer Potentialities of Chico (Pachycereus Weberi) and Jiotilla (Escontria Chiotilla) Fruits Extract | Sandate-Flores L, Romero-Esquivel E, Rodríguez-Rodríguez J, Rostro-Alanis M, Melchor-Martínez EM, Castillo-Zacarías C, Ontiveros PR, Celaya MF, Chen WN, Iqbal HM, Parra-Saldívar R | Plants (Basel) | 22-Nov-2020 |
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| Native trees of Mexico: diversity, distribution, uses and conservation | Tellez O, Mattana E, Diazgranados M, Kühn N, Castillo-Lorenzo E, Lira R, Montes-Leyva L, Rodriguez I, Flores Ortiz CM, Way M, Dávila P, Ulian T | PeerJ | 18-Sep-2020 |
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| Traditional management of microorganisms in fermented beverages from cactus fruits in Mexico: an ethnobiological approach | Ojeda-Linares CI, Vallejo M, Lappe-Oliveras P, Casas A | J Ethnobiol Ethnomed | 10-Jan-2020 |
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| High tolerance to high-light conditions for the protected species Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus (Cactaceae) | Arroyo-Pérez E, Flores J, González-Salvatierra C, Matías-Palafox ML, Jiménez-Sierra C | Conserv Physiol | 17-Jul-2017 |
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| Alternative glacial-interglacial refugia demographic hypotheses tested on Cephalocereus columna-trajani (Cactaceae) in the intertropical Mexican drylands | Cornejo-Romero A, Vargas-Mendoza CF, Aguilar-Martínez GF, Medina-Sánchez J, Rendón-Aguilar B, Valverde PL, Zavala-Hurtado JA, Serrato A, Rivas-Arancibia S, Pérez-Hernández MA, López-Ortega G, Jiménez-Sierra C | PLoS One | 20-Apr-2017 |
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| ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF BURSERA MORELENSIS RAMÍREZ ESSENTIAL OIL | M. CM, C.R. RY, J. SO, H.R. L, M. JE, R. RL, D.A. D, C. F, L.B. H, M.A. RM | Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med | 01-Mar-2017 |
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| Ixcatec ethnoecology: plant management and biocultural heritage in Oaxaca, Mexico | Rangel-Landa S, Casas A, Rivera-Lozoya E, Torres-García I, Vallejo-Ramos M | J Ethnobiol Ethnomed | 20-Jul-2016 |
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| Effects of natural and artificial selection on survival of columnar cacti seedlings: the role of adaptation to xeric and mesic environments | Guillén S, Terrazas T, Casas A | Ecol Evol | 25-Mar-2015 |
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| Agroforestry systems of the lowland alluvial valleys of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve: an evaluation of their biocultural capacity | Vallejo M, Casas A, Pérez-Negrón E, Moreno-Calles AI, Hernández-Ordoñez O, Tellez O, Dávila P | J Ethnobiol Ethnomed | 19-Feb-2015 |
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| Use of columnar cacti in the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico: perspectives for sustainable management of non-timber forest products | Pérez-Negrón E, Dávila P, Casas A | J Ethnobiol Ethnomed | 23-Dec-2014 |
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