Martha's exotic Backyard in Israel:
Selenicus grandifloras,Night-blooming cereus, Queen of the night,
Deer-Horn Cactus, מלכת הלילה
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| | Scientific name: |
| Selenicus grandifloras |
| Common name: |
| Night-blooming cereus, Queen of the night, Deer-Horn Cactus |
| Hebrew name: |
| מלכת הלילה |
| Family: |
| Cactaceae, צבריים או קקטוּסיים |
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| | Life form: |
| Climbing multibranched perennial cactus |
| Leaves: |
| Angular, lead-gray, 4 to 6 ribs twiggy stems with extremeley small spines |
| Flowers: |
| Waxy, creamy-white, many-petaled, trumpet-shaped flowers, which bloom for only one night |
| Origin: |
| Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts of southern Arizona, east to western Texas and south to northern Mexico. |
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