moonlight cactus
selenicereus latin

Common names include Spiny Moon Cereus and Vine-like Moonlight Cactus.

This was the third species of Selenicereus to be discovered.

Paradoxically, are moderate in size compared with several other Selenicereus species.

Flowers similar to Selenicereus.

Closely related to Selenicereus.

It is a variety of nightblooming Cereus and often confused with species of Selenicereus.

Is intermediate between Selenicereus and Hylocereus.

Recent research suggest that this species originated as a hybrid between species of Hylocereus and Selenicereus (see references).

Many species of Selenicereus should be reduced to synonyms of subspecies of this species, differing merely in degree rather than in kind.

Selenicereus xcallianthus (Gaillard) Lindinger (1942).

Hylocereus undatus, with triangular stems, and various species of Nyctocereus and Selenicereus are also known as night-blooming cereus.

Selenicereus (usually Selenicereus grandiflorus)

It is The Queen of the Night (Cactaeae Selenicereus Grandiflorus): which only flowers for one night a year, and withers away.'

Other cacti providing edible fruit include species of Echinocereus, Ferocactus, Mammillaria, Myrtillocactus, Pachycereus, Peniocereus and Selenicereus.

Hylocereus fruit have the advantage of lacking exterior spines, in contrast to the fruit of cacti such as the Selenicereus fruit, being brightly colored, and having a pleasant taste.

Epiphyllum hybrid, one of a number of hybrid cacti formed by crosses between Disocactus, Pseudorhipsalis, Selenicereus and Epiphyllum; often collectively called "epiphyllums" or "epis"

Cactus grandiflorus, Cereus grandiflorus, Night Blooming Cereus, Selenicereus, Selenicereus grandiflorus, Sweet Scented Cactus.

The plants known as epiphyllum hybrids, epiphyllums or just epis, which are widely grown for their flowers, are artificial hybrids of species within the tribe Hylocereeae, particularly species of Disocactus, Pseudorhipsalis and Selenicereus.

Tel-Zur N, Abbo S, Bar-Zvi D, Mizrahi Y. (2004 ) Genetic relationships among Hylocereus and Selenicereus vine cacti (Cactaceae): evidence from hybridization and cytological studies.

Dr. Bernstein, a medical doctor and molecular biologist, was introduced to Selenicereus by her mother, who would rouse her children from their beds on Long Island just as the family plant, given to her by Edward Steichen's daughter, was about to bloom.