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

orchidman1 wrote:
Night bloomers are usually your original plants straight from the lower America's, and the islands. Included: : 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. These are epiphyllums.

Hybrids (breeds derived from these originals), are man made and not epiphyllums, though they are usually called so. They usually bloom during the day and last several days while the original night bloomers only last for a night. There are several thousand hybrids and I recommend joining the Epiforums if you would like to see pictures of most of them ( http://www.epiforums.com/). There is no cost to joining. Your Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter cactus belong to this grouping. bob