PlantFiles Pictures: Night-blooming Cereus, Queen of the Night, Dutchman's Pipe Cactus (Epiphyllum ox, 1 by Happenstance

Happenstance wrote:
I have to admit that I did NOT stay up most of the night for this third flush of the season. :-)

They are beautiful flowers, but their timing is really really bad. Something about "Early to bed, early to rise" comes to mind for me. We had an early & long day at the building site for the new house today, so I opted for a solid night's sleep. I did get up early enough to catch some of them open. Three opened Monday night and six or seven last night. My guess is there will be another half dozen tonight before this showoff shuts down for the season.

Not the best shot, but it was early and I had that early morning soooo cranky thing going!