Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Help with a name..., 1 by orchidman1

orchidman1 wrote:
Hookeri has many Synonym(s): Cereus hookeri, Phyllocactus hookeri, Epiphyllum phyllanthus, Phyllocactus stenopetalus, Epiphyllum stenopetalum, Phyllocactus strictus, Epiphyllum strictum. Epiphyllum Strictum and Hookeri are the same and are in the same family as Oxypetalum. All are night bloomers and come from the tropics: Cuba, South and 'Central America, etc. While Oxypetalum has a bell shaped bloom, Hookeri (Strictum) has a daisy shaped bloom. I will show pictures of both. These are true epies while the hybrids we all love are not. Strictum has longer, narrower stems than does Oxypetalum. In my collection, I call Strictum Aster Strictum rather than Hookeri Strictum. A lot of collectors are trying to get examples of all the named synonyms for their collections.