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Re: Wiki Photos

Title: Re: [GWL] Wiki Photos
on 8/28/03 8:05 AM, Peter Loewer at thewildgardener@earthlink.net wrote:

> Sheri: I think it's Epiphyllum oxypetalum.

Sheri, Peter,

The common name "night-blooming cereus" applies to a large number of cacti with similar white, nocturnal, bat-pollinated flowers growing a wide array of plant forms and habits and classified in a number of different genera.  Epiphyllum oxypetalum is a trailing species with three- or four-ribbed stems.  The plant in your photos is an upright, columnar cactus with many more than four ribs.

Your plant appears to me to be Cereus  uruguayensis, more commonly known as C. peruvianus (of gardens), commonyl known as "apple cactus."

John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9   Sunset zones 21/23
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