— NATURAL LA JOLLA: During warm summer nights over the next couple months, you may catch a glimpse of one of the prettiest blooms of a cactus in the Hylocereus genus. The night blooming cereus ...

The night-blooming cereus, also known as the queen of the night, is a member of the cactus family and looks like a gangly dead bush most of the year. But for one late summer night each year its ...

In the film “Crazy Rich Asians,” the Singapore family hosts a viewing party for their cereus, the night-blooming cactus that only blooms a few nights each year. I recently attended such a party.

From your emails, I also have become more aware of the various epiphyllums out there that we call night-blooming cereus. All are members of the cactus family and in the wild, they grow in trees.

The cactus is called a night blooming cereus and is described as a vigorous vining plant. They often wrap themselves around large live oak trees in the Tampa Bay area.

Features » Plant of the Month: Night blooming cereus puts on a show while providing fruit Saturday, December 05, 2020 12:05 am 1/7 ...

We offer a pictorial on the night blooming cereus, a cactus that is anything but pretty for 11 months of the year. But when it does finally bloom, the flowers last for just one night.

Night Blooming Cereus 3.JPGThe flowers open about 11 p.m. or later, so you have to stay up to see them (a New Orleans tradition and great excuse for a party). For sleepyheads, pick a fully open ...

A night blooming cereus (Selenicereus grandiflorus)blooms on Fort Myers Beach on Tuesday June,11, 2019. The cactus is native to deserts in the southwest but can grow in Southwest Florida conditions.

Sad news for the cereus-curious: The Elmhurst Park District’s night-blooming cereus plant will not bloom this year.Park District horticulturist Ed Hoffmann, who had predicted that the historic ...

Lee Reich/Associated press I recently had the honor of being invited to what sounded like a “serious” little party. Actually, it was a “cereus” party, named for a night-blooming cactus.

The night-blooming cereus cactus occurs just a few nights each year. -- AP photo I recently had the honor of being invited to what sounded like a “serious” little party.