Epiphyllum oxypetalum (DC.) Haw.

Dutchman's pipe cactus

Species recognized by The Integrated Taxonomic Information System external link, T Orrell (custodian) in 
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Flora of China Vol. 13: 212 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.

This species was first introduced to China in 1645, and the naturalized plant was first recorded in Jinghong, Yunnan, in 1936. The mucilaginous flower is often eaten in a vegetable soup.
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Missouri Botanical Garden external link
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eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden. Some rights reserved external link
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org external link
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Flora of China Vol. 13: 212 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.

Shrubs epiphytic, freely branched, 2-6 m tall, with aerial roots. Old stems and basal extension shoots terete, to 2 m or more, woody; branches numerous, dark green, laterally flattened, leaflike, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 15-100 × 5-12 cm, glabrous, base cuneate, attenuate, or stalked, margin undulate to deeply crenate, apex acute to acuminate; midrib 2-6 mm wide, stout. Areoles small, spineless. Flowers nocturnal, fragrant, funnelform, 25-30 × 10-27 cm. Receptacle tube 13-18 cm, base green, 4-9 mm in diam., slightly angled, with triangular to lanceolate scales 3-10 mm. Sepaloids often recurved, pale green or pinkish red, linear to oblanceolate. Petaloids white, oblanceolate to obovate, 7-10 × 3-4.5 cm. Filaments white, 2.5-5 mm; anthers cream, 3-3.5 mm. Style white, 20-22 cm; stigmas 15-20, cream, narrowly linear, 1.6-1.8 mm. Fruit rare, purplish red, oblong, ca. 16 × 5.7 cm. Seed 2-2.5 × ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Oct.
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"Epiphyllum oxypetalum (DC.) Haw.". Encyclopedia of Life, available from "http://www.eol.org/pages/482221". Accessed 20 Mar 2010.