night-blooming cereus

symbol of fading loveliness; blooms briefly. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 176]

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For drama, nothing quite compares to the spectacle of the awakening of the night-blooming cereus. This ragged, sinuous cactus clambers up palm trees and fences with long, prickly, tangled limbs studded with huge closed buds.

Moonstruck: night-blooming flowers offer pleasure by the glow of the rising moon

Named Hylocereus trigonus, or the night-blooming cereus, it produces large, white flowers when a full moon lights up the sky on late-summer nights.

Paradise in peril: although conservation efforts and a vast national park are helping to protect natural resources on the U.S. Virgin Islands, increased tourism, a building boom, and other pressures threaten this still relatively unblemished territory

Try night-blooming cereus (Cactus grandiflorus) for gripping pains in the womb, Graphites (black lead) for bad period pain with a headache and Pulsatilla for bad pain with weepiness.

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