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Internal ID UUID643ff83a595e3162114070
Scientific name Pachycereus weberi
Authority (J.M.Coult.) Backeb.
First published in Cactaceae 4: 2152. 1960.

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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
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.

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Language Common/alternative name
Chinese 武卫柱

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- Native
  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Southwest

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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

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Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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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
PMCID:PMC9189195
doi:10.1016/j.mex.2022.101746
PMID:35707638
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
PMCID:PMC8697955
doi:10.3390/ani11123343
PMID:34944120
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
PMCID:PMC8535898
doi:10.3390/foods10102390
PMID:34681439
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
PMCID:PMC8179198
doi:10.1073/pnas.2100314118
PMID:34039710
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
PMCID:PMC8003391
doi:10.3390/biom11030459
PMID:33808643
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
PMCID:PMC7700655
doi:10.3390/plants9111623
PMID:33266445
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
PMCID:PMC7505059
doi:10.7717/peerj.9898
PMID:32999763
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
PMCID:PMC6954596
doi:10.1186/s13002-019-0351-y
PMID:31924218
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
PMCID:PMC5511894
doi:10.1093/conphys/cox042
PMID:28729902
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
PMCID:PMC5398652
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0175905
PMID:28426818
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
PMCID:PMC5412240
doi:10.21010/ajtcam.v14i3.8
PMID:28480418
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
PMCID:PMC4955254
doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0101-3
PMID:27439512
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
PMCID:PMC4485958
doi:10.1002/ece3.1478
PMID:26140193
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
PMCID:PMC4429347
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-11-8
PMID:25971552
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
PMCID:PMC4290434
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-10-79
PMID:25539885

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Triterpenoids
(3beta,16beta)-3,16-Dihydroxyolean-12-en-28-oic acid 5281335 Click to see 472.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1076/PHBI.36.1.50.4614
(4aR,5S,6aR,6aS,6bR,10S,12aR,14bR)-5,10-dihydroxy-2,2,6a,6b,9,9,12a-heptamethyl-1,3,4,5,6,6a,7,8,8a,10,11,12,13,14b-tetradecahydropicene-4a-carboxylic acid 6453034 Click to see 472.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1076/PHBI.36.1.50.4614
> Organoheterocyclic compounds / Dihydroisoquinolines
3,4-Dihydro-6,7-dimethoxy-1-methylisoquinoline 22652 Click to see 205.25 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
> Organoheterocyclic compounds / Isoquinolines and derivatives
6,7-Dimethoxy-1-methylisoquinoline 20725 Click to see CC1=NC=CC2=CC(=C(C=C12)OC)OC 203.24 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
6,7-Dimethoxyisoquinoline 177578 Click to see COC1=C(C=C2C=NC=CC2=C1)OC 189.21 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
7,8-Dimethoxyisoquinoline 177753 Click to see 189.21 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
> Organoheterocyclic compounds / Tetrahydroisoquinolines
(-)-Pellotine 442336 Click to see CC1C2=C(C(=C(C=C2CCN1C)OC)OC)O 237.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(80)87036-1
(+-)-Carnegine 442186 Click to see CC1C2=CC(=C(C=C2CCN1C)OC)OC 221.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
(+)-Pellotine 12314029 Click to see 237.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
(1S)-6,7-dimethoxy-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolin-8-ol 87201 Click to see 223.27 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroisoquinoline, 6,7,8-trimethoxy-1,2-dimethyl- 616880 Click to see 251.32 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
5,6,7-Trimethoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline 270529 Click to see 223.27 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(80)87036-1
6,7-Dimethoxy-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolin-8-ol 199214 Click to see 223.27 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
6,7-dimethoxy-1,2-dimethyl-3,4-dihydro-1H-isoquinolin-8-ol 65742 Click to see 237.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(80)87036-1
6,7-Dimethoxy-1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroisoquinoline 15623 Click to see 193.24 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(80)87036-1
6,7-Dimethoxy-2-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-isoquinoline 27694 Click to see 207.27 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(80)87036-1
https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
7-Methoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline 417288 Click to see COC1=CC2=C(CCNC2)C=C1 163.22 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(80)87036-1
7,8-Dimethoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline 179606 Click to see COC1=C(C2=C(CCNC2)C=C1)OC 193.24 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(80)87036-1
Anhalidine 2752318 Click to see CN1CCC2=CC(=C(C(=C2C1)O)OC)OC 223.27 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
Carnegine 22646 Click to see 221.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
Isoquinoline, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-5,6,7,8-tetramethoxy- 613852 Click to see 253.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(80)87036-1
https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
Isoquinoline, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-5,6,7,8-tetramethoxy-2-methyl- 156448 Click to see 267.32 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030
Tehaunine 181981 Click to see CN1CCC2=C(C(=C(C=C2C1)OC)OC)OC 237.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/AC00279A030

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