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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.
Epiphyllum (/ ˌ ɛ p ɪ ˈ f ɪ l əm /; [2] "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 .
Epiphyllum (usually Epiphyllum oxypetalum, gooseneck cactus; grown as an indoor houseplant throughout the world, and the most popular cultivated night-blooming cereus) Harrisia Hylocereus (of which Hylocereus undatus is the most frequently cultivated outdoors and is the main source of the commercial fruit crop, dragonfruit )
The phyllocactoid clade (Epiphyllum, Disocactus, Kimnachia and Pseudorhipsalis) are mainly epiphytic, and have spineless flattened leaf-like stems. Flowers and pollination syndromes are equally diverse, ranging from large white nocturnal flowers to bright red flowers opening in the daytime.
Oxypetalum marambaiense Occhioni – Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) Oxypetalum marchesii C.Ezcurra & A.González – Uruguay; Oxypetalum marginatum Malme – Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo, and Paraná) and Paraguay (Sierra de Maracayú) Oxypetalum marianae H.A.Keller & Funez – Brazil (Santa Catarina) Oxypetalum martii E.Fourn. – Bahia
Dutchman's pipe is a common name for some unrelated flowering plants, which have flowers, inflorescences or stems resembling a pipe: Aristolochia species (birthworts or pipevines) from the Aristolochiaceae, particularly Aristolochia macrophylla; Epiphyllum oxypetalum ("night-blooming cereus") from the Cactaceae
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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