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Night Blooming Cereus: Hooker's Orchid Cactus, Epiphyllum hookeri

Free Shipping. 4 Leaf Cuttings. This is the most inexpensive way to get a start of these wonderful plants, and the way my grandmother has passed this plant on to friends and neighbors for over 30 years! These Orchid Cactus plants get pure white,super fragrant flowers which open in the night, closing in the morning. It blooms in waves during the summer months and the blooms have a wonderful, unforgetable fragrance. As the plants get older and larger, the more blooms you will have on a

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You are buying 4 unrooted leaf cuttings of Hooker's Orchid Cactus, Climbing Cactus, (Also called: Night-blooming Cereus, Princess of the Night) (Epiphyllum hookeri).

There are 2 sizes available:

MEDIUM: 4 cuttings 4" - 6" each cutting long ($12.00)
or
LARGE: 4 cuttings each 10" - 12" long ($15.00)

These plants are SUPER EASY to root simply place each leaf cutting, cut end down, into some well draining (cactus suitable) soil. Water sparingly (don't allow water to stand), as you would a cactus and within a few weeks you'll have rooted, growing plants! This is the most inexpensive way to get a start of these wonderful plants, and the way my grandmother has passed this plant on to friends and neighbors for over 30 years!

These Orchid Cactus plants get pure white, super fragrant flowers which open after the sun goes down and stay open all night, closing in the morning. These are long lived plants which often get shared via cuttings and the 'mother plants' get passed down through generations in families.

It blooms in waves during the summer months and the blooms have a wonderful, unforgetable fragrance. As the plants get older and larger, the more blooms you will have on any given night. (In my experience, these plants don't bloom the first year grown from cuttings and may take up to 3 years to bloom).

These are hardy to grow outside only in zone 10 or warmer, but are happy to grow in containers in part shade to mostly sun if protected from freezing temps in the winter.

Email me if you have any questions.