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Epiphyllum oxypetalum is an easily cultivated, fast growing Epiphyllum. It flowers in late spring through late summer; large specimens can produce several crops of flowers in one season. This is a widely cultivated Epiphyllum species. It is known to have medicinal properties in many Asian cultures, including India, Vietnam, and Malaysia.
Night-blooming cereus is the common name referring to many flowering ceroid cacti that bloom at night. The flowers are short lived, and some of these species, such as Selenicereus grandiflorus , bloom only once a year, for a single night, [ 1 ] though most put out multiple flowers over several weeks, each of which opens for only a single night.
Epiphyllum (/ ˌ ɛ p ɪ ˈ f ɪ l əm /; [3] "upon the leaf" in Greek) is a genus of epiphytic plants in the cactus family (Cactaceae), native to Central America and South America. Common names for these species include climbing cacti , orchid cacti and leaf cacti , though the latter also refers to the genus Pereskia .
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A plant called Epiphyllum splendidus was crossed with Disocactus crenatus by Hovey & Co. of Boston in about 1870, [9] [10] but the so-called "Epiphyllum" is actually a reddish-flowered form of Disocactus. [10] Edward Frederick Anderson thinks Pseudorhipsalis spp. are in the parentage of epiphyllum hybrids. [11]
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Epiphyllum thomasianum is an epiphytic species of ... Description. The vegetative morphology closely resembles Epiphyllum ...
Epiphyllum oxypetalum, the Dutchman's pipe cactus, princess of the night or queen of the night. The correct Queen of the Night/Night Queen is Selenicereus grandiflorus. Oxypetalum is refered to as The Princess of the Night Hoyacactus ( talk ) 08:37, 21 April 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]
Epiphyllum oxypetalum (曇花), a species of cactus cultivated in China that blooms rarely and only at night; Tanhua Lin (昙华林, literally "Tanhua Forest"), a forest in Wuhan, Hubei, China; Tanhua Shan (昙华山, literally "Tanhua Mountain"), a mountain range near Dayao in Chuxiong, Yunnan, China