I am joining Cathy at Words and Herbs again today – providing a blast of tropical warmth from my South Florida garden. Above is the flower of a Dragonfruit or Pitaya. This is a night blooming cactus that bears fruit in the summer in the tropics. Early morning photography is necessary as these flowers are very ephemeral.
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I love how over the top cactus flowers are.
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Same here, amazing aren’t they?
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What a cool flower, Amelia! Green flowers aren’t common and I love them.
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I do, too.
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Such a beautiful flower Amelia. So intricate and extravagant! 😃
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Fascinating and so ephemeral, gone by 9 or 10 am if they flower at night.
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Awesome! I once inherited my daughter’s plant that bloomed at night. Looked very similar and now perhaps I know what I had! I’ll have to look back for photos.
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Night blooming cactus are so interesting. I am not sure why it is difficult to get these pollinated in my garden. I have never had a fruit only flowers. There is another variety that grows wild here rambling through the understory – I see it growing on Cabbage Palm trunks.
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Stunning! Those shaggy anthers made me smile.
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I tried to hand pollinate…
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🤞
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Oh, my, what a rare beauty! Do you get fruit?
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No..3 flowers and nada.. tried to hand pollinate.. the flowers are probably worth having the plant.
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This looks more like Epiphyllum oxypetalum than a pitaya; but of course, my pitaya have never bloomed.
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