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Epiphyllum oxypetalum (de Candolle) Haworth
- Common Name: Dutchman's Pipe, Night Blooming Cereus
- Family: Cactaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Central America
- Habitat:
- Description: Stems erect, ascending, scandent or sprawling, profusely branched, primary stems terete, to 2-6 m long, flattened laterally, ligneous at base, secondary stems flat, elliptic-acuminate, to 30 cm x 10-12 cm, thin; margins shallowly to deeply crenate and ± undulate. Flowers produced from flattened portions, to 30 cm long, 12-17 cm wide, nocturnal, very fragrant. The principal odor component in the aroma is benzyl salicylate; pericarpel nude, slightly angled, green, bracteoles short; receptacle 13-20 cm long, 1 cm thick, brownish, arching, bracteoles narrow, ca 10 mm long; outer tepals linear, acute, 8-10 cm long reddish to amber; inner tepals oblanceolate to oblong, acuminate, to 8-10 cm long and 2,5 cm wide, whitish; stamens greenish white or white, slender and weak; style greenish white or white, 4 mm thick, as long as inner tepals, lobes many, pale yellow or white.. Fruit oblong, 12 x 8 cm, purplish red, angled.
Restrictions:- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
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Accession Data:- Accession # 200201585
- Source: unknown
- Provenance: Old accession - lost number, reassigned to new number
- Accession Date: 02-26-2002
- Bench: 1313 - NEO:Tumbes/Choco A
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 04-11-2013
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: core eudicots
- Order: Caryophyllales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Cactaceae
- SubFamily: Cactoideae
- Tribe: Hylocereeae
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