Cactaceae
Deamia testudo
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Deamia
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Common names
By language (3)
- Chinese
- 羽棱柱
- Spanish
- Pitaya de tortuga
- Swedish
- Sköldpaddskaktus
Synonyms
- Cereus acanthosphaera Weing.
- Cereus miravallensis F.A.C.Weber
- Cereus nothus Hort.Gruson.
- Cereus pentapterus Otto ex Salm-Dyck
- Cereus pterogonus Lem.
- Cereus testudo Karw. ex Zucc.
- Deamia diabolica Clover
- Selenicereus miravallensis (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose
- Selenicereus testudo (Karw. ex Zucc.) Buxb. ex Krainz
- Strophocactus testudo (Karw. ex Zucc.) Ralf Bauer
Flowers
- In flower
- July to August (from 11 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Wendy Cutler from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Miguel Grageda, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Epibase assumed, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ulf Eliasson epibase, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: portioid, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Ulf Eliasson epibase 08:33, 30 November 2006, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Quinn Dombrowski from Chicago, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Shawn O'Donnell, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Maja Dumat, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Loopy30, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.