Nightblooming Cereus - Varieties

Varieties

Most night-blooming cereus refer to flowering cacti of the Cereus genus. While many cacti referred to as night-blooming cereus belong to the Tribe Cereeae, other night-blooming cacti in the Subfamily Cactoideae may also be called night-blooming cereus. Cacti called cereus include these genera and/or species:

  • Cereus
  • Echinopsis (usually Echinopsis pachanoi, San Pedro cactus)
  • Epiphyllum (usually Epiphyllum oxypetalum, Gooseneck cactus; grown as an indoor houseplant throughout the world, and the most popular cultivated night-blooming cereus)
  • Harrisia
  • Hylocereus (of which Hylocereus undatus is the most frequently cultivated outdoors, and is the main source of the commercial fruit crop, dragonfruit)
  • Monvillea
  • Nyctocereus (usually Nyctocereus serpentinus)
  • Peniocereus (Peniocereus greggii, the best known, is strictly a desert plant which grows from an underground tuber and is infrequently cultivated)
  • Selenicereus (usually Selenicereus grandiflorus)
  • Trichocereus

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