#selenicereus

[cactguy]

Lotusland | Hanging cactus planters with Selenicereus and Rhipsalis

[lylakoi]

Your OC as a flower

Thanks a lot for the tag @vitanithepure 🩶🫂

Not a flower expert or lover but I tried my best ;)

Moraena - Geum glaciale

Ice rose, one of the first flowers to bloom in the far north. Has some cute fluffy ‘coat’ :) Fitting cause of how fragile the flower looks despite its ability to thrive in the harsh nordic environment, which reflects Moraena relationship with frost and ice.

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Ranveig - Selenicereus

Moonlight cactus that blooms once, and only at night. Ranveig is all prickles, till maybe one day she will trust *someone* (cough-cough) enough to see her actual colors. ;)

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Not sure who already did this, but if you want to - @themagnificentmags @evelhak @fourraccoonsinacoat @avas-poltergeist @vspin @niuniente @theclockwitch

[poop-me-a-flower]

Here’s a lovely stem for you.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 14 November 2019

Having coffee at the Urban Jungle Plant Nursery, Suffolk, UK, is great for a plant enthusiast as the café continues the theme of the nursery. Surrounded by plants I noticed Selenicereus anthonyanus (fish bone cactus, rick rack cactus) in a container hanging from a wire. This species grows in the southern Mexican rainforests and uses the stem for photosynthesis. It is said to be difficult to achieve the nightblooming flowers in cultivation but these are spectacular with white, pink and red petals and a sweet scent.

Jill Raggett

[tsaizhifan]

[morphons]

Fishbone cactus (Selenicereus anthonyanus). Kew Gardens, London. January 2012.

[poop-me-a-flower]

Selenicereus chrysocardium and its new leaf! I’m going to miss the gangly single leaf stage but I’m also excited to see if the new leaf grows in well in the plant’s current conditions.

[shallpass13]

Dragon fruit cacti (Selenicereus) are fucking bitches. The ones I worked with when I worked on assorted farms were shaped like overgrown Scirpus or mangled hamantaschen:

These plants can get big. The spines are, or at least seem to be, only on the pointy parts that stick out. Should be real easy to avoid getting stabbed, right?

Wrong. No matter how carefully you touch only the sides of the plants, or even if you try not to touch them at all (if you are, say, pulling weeds), you will get stabbed. It is unavoidable.

And if the ground is covered in plastic sheeting (so you can’t, say, see the bases of the spiky plants you are weeding around), no one can save you.