Thanks, Juli. It's an offspring from a very old plant my grandmother had, and which now lives in FL. It is struggling to stay alive as it got sunburned one year, drought-stricken another (our pump in our watering system failed), and got nipped by the cold weather we had here in FL before we returned for the winter, but I will say it's pretty resilient. It's an epiphyllum oxypetallum, better known as night blooming cereus, Dutchman's pipe or Queen of the night. It opens only once and at night and has a glorious fragrance. This one lives in our sunroom in Arkansas. The plants got too large to haul outside, however, if you have a smaller plant it can spend the summer outside in the shade but needs to come in before the cold weather hits.
the flowers that are drooping bloomed the night before. This year I had three flushes and the last one was 40 blooms altogether over three nights in four different pots.
The buds take about a month to reach maturity and it is a very long wait.
Jean
