Night Blooming Cereus, Mandacaru
Cereusfernambucensis
Synonym
Cereus
fernambucensis subsp. fernambucensis
Cereus
variabilis
Cereus
pernambucensis
Cereus
neotetragonus
Piptanthocereus
obtusus
I live in zone 8b. It must have winter protection, which I used to provide by moving to sunny south side in winter and covering when fro...Read More
Can I get any thoughts on how to hand pollinate these flowers. One of these nights it looks like I"ll be having my last group of flowers...Read More
I agree that some of the pictures are for the wrong plant. The night-blooming Cereus is an erect columnar cactus with infrequent spines....Read More
There appears to be a great deal of confusion regarding this cactus. In fact, four of the photos presented here are for a different spec...Read More
There is a species name 'Cereus variabilis' that a person named Pfeiffer used in 1837 for this plant, turns out, the name was misapplied ...Read More
A night-blooming cereus (is it the same as this one?) was gorgeously painted in 1800 as part of Dr. Robert J. Thornton's Temple of Flora,...Read More
My grandmother raised this plant for more than 40 years in Kentucky.(outside in summer - inside in winter) She called her plant "Chirst-...Read More
This is a cactus from the brazilian litoral. Some call it Cereus "pernambucensis", because of the state of Pernambuco, but it's officiall...Read More