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Please help I.D. this cactus

11 months ago

last modified: 11 months ago

I recently was given these 2 cacti ( first 2 pics) and was told they are Queen of the Night. But I think this is incorrect. An online app suggested Easter lily cactus, and it is described as a rather small plant, again wrong. I was told that the ancestor ( great grand parent) of my cacti is many years old and huge, the flowers have an amazing smell, and that its owner built a special greenhouse for it. That my small plant will grow about 1 m tall in a couple of years. The pics with the flowers are the parent plant of mine.

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s g
11 months ago
Whatever it is, it needs more light. If it were mine, I would cut off the branch to root it as a new plant and throw away the rest. It will always look terrible with the thin growth caused by too little light.
41 North (Zone 7a/b, NE, coastal)
11 months ago
Maybe Echinocereus. More more sun, yes.

Here is mine.
doriswk thanked 41 North (Zone 7a/b, NE, coastal)
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doriswk
Original Author
11 months ago
last modified: 11 months ago
I was just given these plants by someone who was also given the parent plant by someone who brought them from Rumania. I appreciate any input on how to treat them going forward, also name. The Echinocereus seems to have a different flower formation than my cacti.

When you suggest more sun, can I keep it outdoors in summer in direct sun all day or filtered sun ?
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Bright light or full sun depending on the intensity of the summer sun where you live (too intense may burn it) and shift it into more sun over some weeks to avoid burning.

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