Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Does anyone know where to get original epiphyllums?, 1 by tuffy09

tuffy09 wrote:
I love the original night blooming epiphyllums. I'm trying to build my collection but finding it difficult if not impossible to find them. Everyone has hybrids. All the epip sites have hybrids only.What happened to the originals? Are they extinct? I can't even find pictures of them.I have Hookeri, Pumilum, and Oxypetalum.


There are 19 species of Eiphyllum

Eiphyllum anguliger
E. cartagense
E. caudatum
E. columbiense
E. costaricense
E. cranatum and var crenatum, var kimnachii
E. floribundum
E. grandilobum
E. guatemalense
E. hookeri
E. laui
E. lepidocarpum
E. oxypetalum
E. phyllanthus
E. pittieri
E. pumilum
E. rubrocoronatum
E. thomasianum
E. trimetrale

This message was edited Aug 26, 2010 8:37 PM