Today, I see a person "pleasant goat and grey wolf happy diary at home". The inside of the story is: the beautiful sheep sheep to see Epiphyllum, but Epiphyllum in Wolfsburg, pleasant goat they in order to let the beautiful sheep sheep saw the Wolf fort Epiphyllum, to distract the grey wolf and red wolf, let the beautiful sheep sheep saw epiphyllum. When I saw the flower in full bloom, I want to have a look how beautiful epiphyllum.
Epiphyllum English name is night-blooming cereus, is a shrubby stem cylindrical, wood. Branching is flat lobed, with 2 edges, less 3 - winged, margin sinuate crenate. Thorn was born in circular tooth notch. Young branchlets spiny hairy thorn, old branches without spines. Summer and autumn evening having large white flowers, funnel-shaped flowers, aromatic. Native to Mexico. Hi warm and wet with half shade environment. Not resistant to frost, avoid light exposure. Should contain humus rich sandy loam. The winter temperature is not lower than 5 ℃。 Xiao network composition www.zww.cn
Epiphyllum alias of Qionghua, in beauty, Canna, month to beauty, night grass, ghost, Weituo flower flower. Target is the caryophyllales. Science is a cactus. Family is the ruler group.
Morphological characteristics of Epiphyllum is shrubby succulent, high 1 ~ 2m. Shoot straight, cylindrical, stem irregularly branched, stem foliate flat, length 15 ~ 60cm, width 6cm, green, margin undulate or lack of concave, no thorns, rib thick, no leaf. From the edge of the flower stem areoles issued, in great shape, symmetry, length 25 ~ 30cm, width 10cm, white, dry yellow; stamen fine only a few hours; perianth lobes longer than tube, tepals white, dry yellow, stamens elongated, most; style white, longer than stamens, column the head line, 16 ~ 18 crack. Berry oblong, with red, white, blue, yellow, with fir edge juicy. Seeds many. It requires a thermal environment.
Ecological habits is rich in humus in the sandy soil, hi warm and humid and foggy and half shade environment, should not be exposed to the sun, not cold. Requires well-drained sandy soil. Stems woody, flat, a forked branch; old branch is cylindrical, the new long elliptic margin undulate without thorns. Flowers large, born in cladodes edge; calyx tubular, red, double flowers, pure white, petals lanceolate. Flowers open in the evening, 3 to 4 hours. Blossom season Epiphyllum general in 6 ~ October, blossom time at the 8 ~ after nine o'clock, blooming time is only 5~~10 minutes, very short. Yuhua open, however slowly tilt, the purple coat opens slowly, is composed of more than 20 petals, white as snow big flowers opened. But only 3 to 4 hours after the closure, flowers, flowers soon fade, really is "flower briefly as the broad-leaved epiphyllum"
I saw a lot of Epiphyllum pictures, like Epiphyllum is really beautiful, I also want to try a broad-leaved epiphyllum.