![]() ![]() It is found climbing on trees and on rocks at an altitude of 700 metres. It is native throughout the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti), Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, and a few other locations in South and Central America. ![]() There has been doubt about which plant was available to Linnaeus when he drew up his description, but this is solved and both the plates on this side show the authentic species. Records from Hortus Kewensis gives that the species was grown at Royal Gardens at Hampton Court before 1700. Linnaeus described it in 1753, but it was known long before. The first species to be brought into cultivation. Paradoxically, its flowers are moderate in size compared with several other Selenicereus species. When Carl Linnaeus described this cactus in 1753 it was the largest flowered species of cacti known. Grandiflorus is Latin for 'large flowered'. It is often confused with the genus Epiphyllum. Most of the plants under this name belong to other species or hybrids. The true species is extremely rare in cultivation. The species is commonly referred to as queen of the night, night-blooming cereus (though these two terms are also used for other species), large-flowered cactus, sweet-scented cactus or vanilla cactus. Selenicereus grandiflorus is a cactus species originating from the Antilles, Mexico and Central America. ![]() affinis (Salm-Dyck) Borg (1951) Cacti 206 Selenicereus donkelaarii (Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose (1917) Standard Cycl. 14:147Ĭereus grandiflorus uranos Riccobono (1909) Boo. 415Ĭereus scandens minor Boerhaave in Arendt (1891) Monatsschr. spectabilis Karwinsky in Förster (1846) Handb.Cact. 8, no 11Ĭereus grandiflorus affinis Salm-Dyck (1850) Cact. However I don’t know much about them.( L.) Britton & Rose, (1909) Contr.
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