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Epiphyllum phyllanthus

Botanic Family

Cactaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Haworth

Hardiness Zone

Min10C

Conservation Status

Trade controlled

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Trinidad & Tobago
• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Distrito Federal
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Roraima
• Amapá
• Rondonia
• Tocantins
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Ceará
• Pernambuco
• Alagoas
• Bahia
• Espirito Santo
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo
• Paraná
• Santa Catarina
• Rio Grande do Sul- Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Antigua
• Barbuda

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• seasonally inundated forest
• riverside
• forest edge
• gallery fores
• cloud forest.

Flowering Times

• All year Summer

Fruiting Times

• All year

Root climbing epiphytic vine with nocturnal, fragrant 300mm long cream or white flowers with many fine petals, pink without, greenish outside tube at base with 100mm x 35mm red to purple-blue or pink elipsoid fruit, sometimes bristly cactus

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Mobot
• NYBG
• RHS A-Z
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant list