Which Selenicereus (Queen of the Night?) is this?
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 4:59 pm
Hi folks,
we are looking for the name of a Queen or Princess or Whatever of the night, i.e. a Selenicereus. To draw more attention, I not only add to an existing post but add a new post with my question, too.
A kind guy, Stefan, answered a very old post of mine in which I offered cutlings of Sel. donkelaari & Sel. grandiflorus. My grandiflorus should be identified correctly as I bought it in the Sukkulentensammlung / Succulent Collection of Zurich. You might know their "boss" is Urs Eggli from his succulent lexika. (There is a this year's film about the flower of Sel. grandiflorus featuring Mr. Eggli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUG-VcU-3CA. Very interesting, but in Swiss-German. )
Stefan asked about cutlings and offered me one of his Selenicereus. He is not secure whether it is a Sel. pteranthus or a coniflorus, as none of the descriptions really fit. Let me add, that the descriptions are not in unison & harmony at all. I ask myself whether it may be a hybrid. You will find pictures of the plant in question below.
The stems have four to five ribs. You see that the ribs are visible but not very deep on the adult stems. On the young stems they are a lot more prominent. Young stems are light green with a red hue. Adult stems are dark or bluish green and up to 3cm in diameter.
There are four to six outer spines per areole, not always with a central spine. The spines are smaller in the young stems and grow up to ca. 1cm at the adult stems. Spines at the young stems are white, at the older yellowish.
The distance from one areole to the next on a rib is up to 3cm.
For the bud & the flower see for yourself. The open flowers are up to 25 or 30cm in diameter. Stefan says the flowers smell fruity or artificially of banana and cocoa. (My Sel. donkelaari & grandiflorus smell both like a natural mixture of vanilla and cocoa.)
The plant climbs up on its "scaffold" (how DO you call these thingummies?!) and then lets the stems dangle down. The flowers appear at the dangling parts.
Here are Stefan's pictures of his plant -- isn't it a beauty?! Just look at those flowers.
Please mind that the pocket rules always show centimeters (2.5cm = 1in). Let me add further details of my new cutling (thank you very much, Stefan! I am so glad, whatever's the name.) On rethinking: The plant in question has a lot thicker stems and much less of a beard (air roots) than my Sel. grandiflorus. The grown buds look almost identical. But I think the outer, bronze petals open more wide here than at my old plant, also this plants flowers are definitely bigger. The smell is totally different.
Now who knows what kind of Selenicereus this is?
Thank you ever so much.
Nachtkrabb
we are looking for the name of a Queen or Princess or Whatever of the night, i.e. a Selenicereus. To draw more attention, I not only add to an existing post but add a new post with my question, too.
A kind guy, Stefan, answered a very old post of mine in which I offered cutlings of Sel. donkelaari & Sel. grandiflorus. My grandiflorus should be identified correctly as I bought it in the Sukkulentensammlung / Succulent Collection of Zurich. You might know their "boss" is Urs Eggli from his succulent lexika. (There is a this year's film about the flower of Sel. grandiflorus featuring Mr. Eggli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUG-VcU-3CA. Very interesting, but in Swiss-German. )
Stefan asked about cutlings and offered me one of his Selenicereus. He is not secure whether it is a Sel. pteranthus or a coniflorus, as none of the descriptions really fit. Let me add, that the descriptions are not in unison & harmony at all. I ask myself whether it may be a hybrid. You will find pictures of the plant in question below.
The stems have four to five ribs. You see that the ribs are visible but not very deep on the adult stems. On the young stems they are a lot more prominent. Young stems are light green with a red hue. Adult stems are dark or bluish green and up to 3cm in diameter.
There are four to six outer spines per areole, not always with a central spine. The spines are smaller in the young stems and grow up to ca. 1cm at the adult stems. Spines at the young stems are white, at the older yellowish.
The distance from one areole to the next on a rib is up to 3cm.
For the bud & the flower see for yourself. The open flowers are up to 25 or 30cm in diameter. Stefan says the flowers smell fruity or artificially of banana and cocoa. (My Sel. donkelaari & grandiflorus smell both like a natural mixture of vanilla and cocoa.)
The plant climbs up on its "scaffold" (how DO you call these thingummies?!) and then lets the stems dangle down. The flowers appear at the dangling parts.
Here are Stefan's pictures of his plant -- isn't it a beauty?! Just look at those flowers.
Please mind that the pocket rules always show centimeters (2.5cm = 1in). Let me add further details of my new cutling (thank you very much, Stefan! I am so glad, whatever's the name.) On rethinking: The plant in question has a lot thicker stems and much less of a beard (air roots) than my Sel. grandiflorus. The grown buds look almost identical. But I think the outer, bronze petals open more wide here than at my old plant, also this plants flowers are definitely bigger. The smell is totally different.
Now who knows what kind of Selenicereus this is?
Thank you ever so much.
Nachtkrabb