Are these edible?
Fruit or seed pod
The flowers opened at night and were white and the size of a ping pong ball,fragrant as well.
That plant looks a lot like my Epiphyllum hookeri: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/256187/ but I'm sure there are many look-a-likes and mine gets a pinkish/red fruit. I don't know about being edible though. Hopefully someone will come along with some info for you ... I don't think I'd chance tasting one though. ^_^
Oh, almost forgot to ask: Is that a SNAKE I see in the background of your first picture?? Yikes, sure looks like the venomous Coral Snake or possibly the non-venomous Scarlet King Snake: http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Coral_snake_mimics.gif
I have the epie hookerii,these are a lot smaller flower,no larger than a quarter in size.
Snake!!!!LOL
Red on black friend of jack
Black on yellow,kill a fellow!!!!
It's rubber,but it gets the attention of a lot of lookers that come to the gardens!!!LOL
The snake in your picture sure got my attention, LOL. I thought it was a real coral snake! I can never remember that "Red on black" saying but remember the tip of the coral snake's head is black whereas the non venomous scarlet king is reddish orange. We have both of those down here as well as a few other types of snakes. They all scare me! We had two coral snakes in the yard last year. The first one I came across was when I was weeding a flower bed and it really scared the bejeebies out of me when I realized it was the venomous coral snake! It buried itself in the mulch and we never saw it again ... you can bet it was awhile before I did any more weeding! My husband said at least it wasn't a striker like the rattlesnake .. the coral snake just grabs hold and chews, continuously injecting venom. We have diamond back rattlesnakes and pygmy rattlesnakes down here too, both venomous. After the hurricanes of 2004 my next door neighbors were removing the boards from their picture window out front and found two pygmy rattlers hiding behind the wood and a neighbor across the street shot a 7' diamond back rattlesnake in his backyard about 15 years ago. There have been numerous reports of folks being bitten by pygmy rattlers in garden centers! After hearing those stories I am so careful when at a garden center ... no more reaching back into a group of plants to choose a better looking one! Makes me want to carry a long stick to root around in the rows of plants before picking one up! Snakes scare me. There are so many huge Pythons in this state nowadays too ... people buy them as small pets and they grow extremely large. A few months ago a little girl was smothered to death in her bed by a family Python and just last week authorities seized an 18' long 350 pound!! Python from a backyard of someone's home. Scary!! The owner was fined for not having the proper permit for the snake. Apparently it was a family pet named Delilah they had had from a baby and it grew up around kids and the kids played with it and sat on it and they said the snake was harmless. You can see the video here: http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=113723 Geesh, can you imagine a pet like that?
Oh my that is a big big snake.
Spiders scare me more than snakes!!
Every morning I take a bamboo stick and clear the garden of huge spider webs that they build every night over the walk ways in the garden,I'd hate for someone to get bitten from one of these big spiders!!!
Yikes .. I don't like spiders or snakes! We have a friend who was bitten by a brown recluse spider several years ago and it was not good.
Snakes and spiders, oh my! Don't like either. Since moving to AR I have tried to be very careful of where I put my hands and feet in the garden. We have pigmy rattlers here, along with the big ones, cotton mouth moccasins, and some others. I have rock walls, and look closely before sticking my hands near them -- we also have tarantulas, which are horrible looking things -- supposedly harmless, but I'm not taking a chance!
Eeek! Tarantuals? Now, those are some huge, ugly spiders and I have heard that they will bite!
They are huge hairy ugly things! We also have scorpions that you want to give a wide berth to. They like to live around rocks, too.
Oh, we have scorpions here in Florida too, I don't think it's the same as the ones out west, not as large and maybe not as venomous, but a gal I worked with one time was bitten by one and got rather sick. Years ago we had a wood pile out back and there were scorpions in the wood pile.
DH got nailed by one a couple of years ago. Didn't make him sick, but I kept an eye on him to make sure he was okay. The ones out west are smaller and more venomous. DH and SIL used to go out in SIL's back yard in Arizona with a black light and shine it on their wall, where they liked to hide, and they glowed. Must be a guy thing -- I never wanted to have any part of it and stayed as far away from them as possible.
Tropicman, I'm confused. I thought I had hookerii, but the blooms on mine are HUGE, you said yours are the size of a quarter? Do I have some other hybrid?
Now I'm confused!!!LOL
This is not hookerii,but I have,,Epiphyllum pumilum,but this is not it either,so I don't know what the fruit is from at all,I was hoping someone could ID it!
I think is another cutting I got from Clare marked unknown.
I've never saw one with such small flowers before.
Oh, sorry, I get it now, went back and read your post from the 18th. I had not read it correctly. I thought you were referring to the hookerii as having small blooms, but I see how you meant it now.
Sorry on my side as well,redneck thinking again always confusing somebody as well as myself!!!!
No, no, no, it wasn't you, it was me not paying attention to the comma in your sentence. Hey, you can't be a redneck if you used a comma. I'm from AL and live only 3 miles from the AL state line now, so I know redneck. I'm definitely not in the part of Florida that everyone evisions when they say "Florida". Fifty miles away it's a different world.
My mom was born and raised in Greenville Ala.50 miles south of Montgomery,so I guess we both are rednecks!!!!LOL
I've been to Greenville! Probably about 50-60 miles from here. Bless your mama's heart!
Thank you
My Momma passed on February 11th 1989,I miss her so!
Sandra Jackson her little sister,only sister still living,lives in Foley,and still working at 70,runs a beauty shop .
She tickles me so,when she talks to me she always calls me sugar and hun,you don't hear people talk like that any more,I sure miss hearing the passion in people,I guess the good ole days are gone for gooD!
I still hear the sugar/hon talk once in a while, but not a lot. It's feeling less and less like those times. Some good changes, some not good, actually I guess a lot not good. My 83 year old mother-in-law is in better shape than lots of younger people. Sometimes I think she's in better shape than me and I'm ONLY 56. I think people were just tougher in years gone by.
I hope and pray,a easier time comes back in the lives of people.everything needs to slow back down,seems everyone is in a hurry to get there or get something done
Life is short enough as it is.
Amen
Amen
Amen to that. Time was people also looked out for one another. Everything now is me, me, me. I grew up in a small town where if you did something you shouldn't on your way home from school, your mother probably knew about it before you got home! Just one way of keeping you on the straight and narrow!
Boy in how!
I remember those days,and I never knew how they knew!!!!LOL
Mine are just starting to turn a pinkish red,it has been about 2 to 3 months since I first saw them,and now there starting to ripen I assume anyway by the color changing.
Mine are hot pink now,and starting to crack open,will try to get pics,might pick them tomorrow.
Opening now
more
I wonder if their flowers will come true from seeds.
Only problem is you have to wait 7 or more years to get flowers.
These were very small white flowers,so growing these I get more pleasure from the fruit pods than the flowers!!!
LOL! you'll be surprised how fast 7 years go by. My cereus bloomed from stem cuttings after 3 years. Have you ever grown them from seeds?
I am trying to, 2 years down and 5 to go.
Sandy