Night Blooming Cereus plant (cactus)

The botanical name of Night Blooming Cereus is Epiphyllum hookeri and it is also commonly known as Lady of the Night, Queen of the Night and Dutchman's Pipe. It is member of the Orchid Cactus family (its flowers emerge from the leaf-like structure). Our Night Blooming Cereus plants are young, strong and healthy.


The Night Blooming Cereus is an easy plant to grow, loving dry conditions and some direct light. The leaves look almost smooth and are very long and flat and have spines only on the margins at the indentations. The mature Night Blooming Cereus is an intermittent bloomer. The flowers are fragrant and very petalous and form at the notches on the flat or triangular leaves of last year.

The flowers are pure white in color, the size of a plate, and the blooms in waves during the summer months, with sometimes as many as 15 flowers at once. The blooms open as soon as the sun goes down and stay open all night, closing in the morning. The flower's fragrance is heady and intoxicating.

This plant is suitable for growing indoors (can reach a height of 6'). Water regularly but do not overwater. Outdoors, it is hardy in zone 10 (minimum night temperatures of 35 degrees).

Plants are shipped USPS priority mail. Continental United States only.

This plant is in a 2 1/2 inch pot.