Native to Venezuela Cereus repandus is another large columnar that gets over 30 feet tall. Yet another night bloomer it gets 6 inch wide white flowers with pink tipped petals.
     I don't have any normal C. Repandus so this page wil showcase my crested specimens instead. Cereus "Camelot", with it's copper spined bumps and whorls is a fascinating cultivated cactus. Both cristate and monstrose, the growth forms an infinite variety of complicated shapes. I have several of these and they are very variable. This one has many soft spines whereas another I have has sparser stiffer gold spines and it's more compact. I'm going to try planting some of this in the yard this year and see how it does. I saw a specimen in a large pot once that was a mound about 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Very cool!