Night-blooming Cereus
സെലെനിസെറിയസ് അണ്ടറ്റസ്
Selenicereus undatus (Haw.) D.R.Hunt
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.3 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Cactaceae
Also called Dragonfruit, White-fleshed Pitahaya, Dragon fruit, Creeping Queen-Of-The-Night
Formerly Cereus tricostatus, Cereus undatus, Harrisia undata, Hylocereus tricostatus, and 1 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent epiphyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to HondurasKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 2.4 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Hawaiian
- Panini o Kapunahou
- root
- penxacub, la-po-lei-fa, Cuamecatl
- myn
- sak-wob
- Spanish
- Pitahaya, Pitahaya orejona, Pitajaya
- Dutch
- slingercactus
- Portuguese
- Rainha-da-noite, Pitaya-vermelha-polpa-branca
- Chinese (China)
- 量天尺, 火龙果
- Chinese
- 火龍果, 三角柱, 霸王花
- Indonesian
- Buah Naga
- Japanese
- ドラゴンフルーツ
- Thai
- แก้วมังกร
- Russian
- Гилоцереус волнистый
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Selenicereus undatus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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