Think there can only be one queen? Think again!
When you know how to propagate queen of the night from cuttings, you can grow your own new plants and create a multitude of beautiful epiphyllum queens to surround you!
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Growing queen of the night (known botanically as Epiphyllum oxypetalum) and other epiphyllums from cuttings is not a difficult project, but there are a few not-so-obvious tricks involved that you’ll want to know about before you get started.
I’ve boiled down the epiphyllum propagation process to five easy-to-follow steps. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s involved:
Before we start propagating, let me clear up some potential confusion around the common names of the subject of our article.
As sometimes happens in the botanical world, there is a bit of confusion as to which plant is the rightful owner of the common name of this plant, “queen of the night.”
(I have to say, I’m not sure that the plants really care what we call them anyway, but we indoor gardeners have to have some way to make sure we’re all on the same page when growing these various plants!)
So for us humans, let me point out that there are (at least) two species that go by the common name “queen of the night” – as well as another name, “night-blooming cereus.”
One of the plants is a forest cactus, and that’s the one we’re going to talk about in this article. This queen of the night is known botanically by the species name Epiphyllum oxypetalum.
Another contender for these two common names, classified as Cereus repandusorC. peruvianus, looks more like what you might expect
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