Shellseeker Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Bloomed last night on my back porch.. portents of good things to come. Happy New Year... Jack 11 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnbuckeye Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Happy new Year Jack!! Beautiful bloom. As white as Minnesota snow. Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Whoa that's a pretty flower! Any idea what kind it is Jack? Happy new year, and here's to a great year! 1 Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Looks great, a lovely flower. Happy new year to you and everyone, I am sure we will have a fantastic 2023! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacha Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Meganeura said: Whoa that's a pretty flower! Any idea what kind it is Jack? Happy new year, and here's to a great year! Night blooming cereus I believe........maybe not. Leaves look wrong. Edited January 1, 2023 by Sacha 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 I think they can be quite variable. Previous owner of my Boca Raton house stuck some alongside the oak trees the back yard. Over the decades they climbed the trees and were stealthily perched some 25 feet high. Never paid much attention to the "cactus" up in the tree canopy till the first year when these foot-long squishy rotting "mushroom" looking things were found all over under the oak canopy. Took this dull-witted boy from Chicago to look up on evening and see the huge white flowers for the one night they were open before dropping to the ground in a sodden mess the next morning. Never had any indication that this mass of cereus was blooming as it did it all at night (bat pollinated). Much nicer at ground level where you can see the spectacular blooms at this time of the season. Cheers. -Ken 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Happy New Year, Jack. Thanks for the Good omen. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted January 2, 2023 Author Share Posted January 2, 2023 10 hours ago, digit said: Never had any indication that this mass of cereus was blooming as it did it all at night (bat pollinated). Wow ! I got bats !!! Background. My wife visited a plant nursery a couple of years back with a good friend. Both admired a plant Cereus Epiphyllum oxypetalum,but it was very expensive and the clerk was nice enough to remove a few petals and give to each woman. Her friends plant bloomed the 1st year, but this one started New Years Eve, yesterday. Mine was a house plant, inside a back screened porch. Hurricane Ian removed the screening. Maybe that is how the bats got to the plant? Ken, is that story about the bats true ? Happy New Year... 3 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Yup. Bats (and large moths like Sphynx) love big white nocturnal flowers. Would be fun to set up a night vision motion activated critter cam and see if you get visitors. Looks like your plant is another night blooming cactus not too distantly related to the terrestrial night-blooming cereus that I had in Boca. The cactus segments were much more succulent. I think I had either the common Selenicereus grandiflorus or a similar cereus-type cactus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night-blooming_cereus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenicereus_grandiflorus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyllum_oxypetalum All drop-dead gorgeous blooms worthy of having some coffee after dinner so you can stay up and watch the show. Cheers. -Ken P.S.: Nice to see some normalcy (if just a bit) return to Sanibel Island. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Hi, 7 hours ago, Shellseeker said: Very nice ! Coco 1 ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 @Shellseeker Very nice. At one point I had quite an extensive Epiphyllum collection - lots of different pinks, reds, yellows. Until a winter a few years ago, my greenhouse heater failed...... MotM August 2023 - Eclectic Collector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted January 5, 2023 Author Share Posted January 5, 2023 1 hour ago, Yoda said: @Shellseeker Very nice. At one point I had quite an extensive Epiphyllum collection - lots of different pinks, reds, yellows. Until a winter a few years ago, my greenhouse heater failed...... Ah, Yoda... I detect knowledge and experience. On this topic , I have little or none... Back in the COVID years, my wife and a few friends would visit the few Plant Nurseries that were open. They felt the social distancing aspects were better in an outdoor nursery. They admired a plant that had lots of blooms on it, and would not make the purchase because it was very expensive. However, an employee gave them each a couple of cuttings, from which the plant on my back porch is growing... Without specifying any specific figures, is it your sense that large Epiphyllum potted plants can be very expensive ? Will it grow well in my back yard? Thanks for your insights. Jack The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) On 1/5/2023 at 2:06 PM, Shellseeker said: Without specifying any specific figures, is it your sense that large Epiphyllum potted plants can be very expensive ? Will it grow well in my back yard? Thanks for your insights. Jack Expensive ?? Hard to say. I wouldn't have a clue how much this sort of thing would cost in the USA. But, I would imagine a bigger pot of them, would be more expensive than just one or two stems. Having said that.... You are in Florida ? They should do quite well in your climate, and when happy, grow quickly. Maybe keep one small plant (easy to take cuttings from a stem) and keep indoors as insurance. But it should do well in a shaded spot outdoors I have an extensive cactus, succulent and fern collection. In our climate, a heated greenhouse is essential. Edited January 10, 2023 by Yoda 1 MotM August 2023 - Eclectic Collector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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