Once a year, the night-blooming cereus wows us with white, palm-sized flowers that blossom at dusk and wilt before sunrise. And we love her. Also known as Peniocereus greggi var. transmontanus or ...

Night Blooming Cereus Jeff Rice of member station KUAZ in Tucson, Ariz., visited Tohono Chul Park for its annual "Queen of the Night" celebration, and sent this audio postcard.

I have also heard them called “Queen of the Night. Like most cacti, cereus are easy to root. Carol Parker Baden in Windsor Woods in Virginia Beach sent a beautiful photo of her cereus with four ...

Night-blooming cereus, Queen of the Dark. Most months it's a stick-straight plant, dim-looking and spiny. In August, long buds form. Then suddenly, swiftly, flowers. Huge, the size of softballs. They ...

Every night for a week I checked a pair of palm trees near Payne Park in downtown Sarasota that are covered with Selenicereus grandiflorus, (aka Queen of the Night, aka night-blooming cereus) ...

Every year at just about mid-April, Lee Mason becomes a stalker. Mason, the general services director at Tohono Chul Park, is stalking for signs of when Peniocereus greggii–the Queen of the ...

Other than for one short-lived evening, a photo is the only way to have an image of the bloom of a night-blooming cereus. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 65°F.

The species, commonly referred to as Queen of the Night, is a night-blooming cereus, meaning it blossoms only in the moonlight. Daybreak sees the flowers wither.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — For just one night every year, the Night Blooming Cereus blooms spontaneously. Tohono Chul's Gardens Manager Chris Kibler has determined tonight is the night. Doors will ...

The night-blooming cereus, known as the "queen of the night" or by its scientific name, Selenicereus grandiflorus, is actually a type of cactus that grows as a vine along trees.Before it blooms ...