Night-blooming cereus

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Night-blooming cereus is a common name that refers to the large number of flowering seroid cactus that bloom at night. The flowers are short-lived, and some of these species, such as , bloom only once a year, for one night. Other names for one or more cactus with this custom are princess night , queen Honolulu (for Hylocereus undatus ), Christ in the manger , dama de noche and queens (also used for unrelated plant species).

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Genera dan spesies

While many cactus are called cereus that bloom in the night belonging to the Cereeae tribe, another cactus that blooms at night in the Cactoideae subfamily may also be called cereus that blooms at night. Cacti that can be called by this name includes:

• Cereus
• Echinopsis (usually Echinopsis pachanoi , San Pedro cactus)
• Epiphyllum (usually Epiphyllum oxypetalum , gooseneck cactus; grown as an indoor ornamental plant around the world, and the most popular cereus of the night being cultivated)
• Harrisia
• Hylocereus (the Hylocereus undatus is the most commonly cultivated outdoors, and is the main source of commercial fruit plants, dragonfruit)
• Monvillea
• Nyctocereus (usually Nyctocereus serpentinus )
• Peniocereus ( Peniocereus greggii , best known, is a desert plant that grows from underground tubers and is rarely cultivated)
• Selenicereus (usually Selenicereus grandiflorus )
• Trichocereus

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Description

Regardless of genus or species, cereus flowers that bloom at night are almost always white or very pale colors of other colors, often large, and often fragrant. Most of the flowers opened after nightfall, and by dawn, most were in the process of withering. Plants in the same geographical area tend to bloom on the same night. Also for healthy plants there can sometimes be as many as three separate blossoming events scattered during the hottest months. Plants that have such flowers can be high, columnar, and sometimes very large and tree-like, but more often are thin-stalkers. While some cereus that are blooming at night are planted indoors in homes or greenhouses in cold climates, most of these plants are too big or rigid for this treatment, and are only found outdoors in the tropics.

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Cultivation and use

The dried cereus dried flowers at night (???) are common ingredients used in Cantonese-cooked soups (traditional Chinese: pinyin: l? Ohu? T? Ng ; Jyutping: lou5 fo2 tong1 ). Some cereus plants that are blooming at night produce fruits large enough for people to eat. This includes some members of the genus Cereus , but most often is the fruit of Hylocereus . Hylocereus fruit has the advantage of a lack of exterior spines, different from cactus fruit like Selenicereus fruit, brightly colored, and has a pleasant taste. Since the late 1990s, Hylocereus has been grown commercially and sold in tropical locations such as Australia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Hawaii.

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See also

• Cactus cactus
• Pitaya
• Queen of the Night

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References

• Night Blooming Cereus Bud to Bloom documentation over a 33-day period

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