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Night-blooming cereus is the common name referring to a large number of flowering ceroid cacti that bloom at night. The flowers are short lived, and some of these species, such as ''Selenicereus grandiflorus'', bloom only once a year, for a single night. Other names for one or more cacti with this habit are princess of the night, Honolulu queen (for ''Hylocereus undatus''), Christ in the Manger, Dama de Noche and queen of the night (which is also used for an unrelated plant species). ==Genera and species== While many cacti referred to as night-blooming cereus belong to the tribe Cereeae, other night-blooming cacti in the subfamily Cactoideae may also be called night-blooming cereus. Cacti which may be called by this name include: * ''Cereus'' * ''Echinopsis'' (usually ''Echinopsis pachanoi'', San Pedro cactus) * ''Epiphyllum'' (usually ''Epiphyllum oxypetalum'', gooseneck cactus; grown as an indoor houseplant throughout the world, and the most popular cultivated night-blooming cereus) * ''Harrisia'' * ''Hylocereus'' (of which ''Hylocereus undatus'' is the most frequently cultivated outdoors, and is the main source of the commercial fruit crop, dragonfruit) * ''Monvillea'' * ''Nyctocereus'' (usually ''Nyctocereus serpentinus'') * ''Peniocereus'' (''Peniocereus greggii'', the best known, is strictly a desert plant which grows from an underground tuber and is infrequently cultivated) * ''Selenicereus'' (usually ''Selenicereus grandiflorus'') * ''Trichocereus'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Night-blooming cereus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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