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So, this is a close up photograph of this splendid bloom, whose perfume is intense and smells like vanilla.
As for many botanic Epiphyllum, it will fade in the early morning hours.
But its characteristics indicate the name of the plant: it's Epiphyllum phyllanthus ssp. hookeri.
To think I had taken a cutting of the same species a few years earlier, in the forest of the archaeological Maya site of Tikal in Guatemala! And there too, I happen to discover the name of the species only a few years later, when the plant resulting from the cutting bloomed for the first time in my collection at home.
Epiphyllum originating from Tikal (Guatemala)
fruit of this Epiphyllum
Canopy of the tropical forest in Tikal (Guatemala)
The same species of Epiphyllun is present in the forest of the archaeological Maya site of Tikal (Guatemala) and at Sri Lanka.
As soon as I knew the identity of Rémy's plant, I sent him an e-mail to tell him its name but also to have some details about the precise area of the island where he had taken the cutting: Next page 6/10 >>>
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PHOTOS OF ALL MY BOTANICAL EPIPHYLLUM
PHOTOS OF ALL MY HYBRID EPIPHYLLUM
REPRODUCTION BY SOWING OF EPIPHYLLUM OXYPETALUM
TIKAL : AN EPIPHYLLUM BIOTOPE AND ALSO AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAYA SITE
A VIETNAMESE LEGEND ABOUT EPIPHYLLUM OXYPETALUM
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