RE: Night-blooming Cereus

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• Subject: RE: [CHAT] Night-blooming Cereus
• From: &* <t*@comcast.net>
• Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:05:40 -0700
• In-reply-to: <3D7DDBD6-E8D3-11D8-B552-000A95B94698@igc.org>

Hi Jim and all-
 Mine is the Epiphyluum oxypetalum I believe.

Theresa

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 5:38 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Night-blooming Cereus


Here's a link to a picture of the one I had in California; This one is 
Epiphyllum oxypetalum. It is strikingly different from Hylocereus 
undatus, although the flowers look and smell a lot alike.

http://plantsdatabase.com/showimage/20277/

On Saturday, August 7, 2004, at 08:23 PM, james singer wrote:

> There are a bunch of plants with the popular name "night-blooming 
> cereus", Jesse. Many of them are hybrids and take varying times to 
> first bloom. Among the cactus cuttings I recently got from California 
> is Hylocereus undatus [called "night blooming cereus"] but it is 
> nothing like the night blooming cereus I had when I lived in 
> California, which I'm reasonably certain was a hybrid. I can't make 
> out the leaf structure of Theresa's lovely flower well enough to 
> decide if it's like my new ones or my old one.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
> Behalf
> Of Jesse Bell
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:00 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Night-blooming Cereus
>
> OH WOW...great pictures. Somebody on the list sent me one...about 2
> years ago..anybody remember sending me this? Anyway...it struggled at
> first but is growing a lot now...I can't WAIT to see it bloom. I wonder
> how long it will be before mine blooms?
>
> jess
>
> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Zone 10a
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]

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