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Pilosocereus moritzianus is a columnar cactus native to the Caribbean and northern Venezuela, with blue-green ribbed stems, silky hair-tufted areoles and red fruit. It needs full sun, very well-drained soil and infrequent watering.
Pilosocereus moritzianus is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to Trinidad and Tobago and the Venezuelan Antilles in the Caribbean and to Venezuela in northern South America. It was first described in 1837 as Cereus moritzianus. It was subsequently placed in the genus Cephalocereus before being moved to Pilosocereus in 1957. It has also been treated as a subspecies of Pilosocereus lanuginosus, P. lanuginosus subsp. moritzianus.
As of June 2025, Plants of the World Online records the distribution of Pilosocereus moritzianus as Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and the Venezuelan Antilles. In Venezuela, it is known from Caracas, and the states of Carabobo and Vargas; in the Venezuelan Antilles, it is present in Patos Island. It has also been said to be present in Colombia.
Pilosocereus albisummus · Pilosocereus alensis · Pilosocereus armatus · Pilosocereus arrabidae · Pilosocereus aureispinus · Pilosocereus aurisetus · Pilosocereus azulensis · Pilosocereus brasiliensis · Pilosocereus brevispinus · Pilosocereus brooksianus · Pilosocereus catalani · Pilosocereus catimbauensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pilosocereus moritzianus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
