Epiphyllum ackermannii on my Ash tree.

[Stan510]

Somehow its done well on spotty watering ,cold winter nights. With porch Cymbidium. Spring has well begun.

[MICHAEL]

Lovely. How long do they flower for, Stan? They're so beautiful but we only get a couple of weeks out of them and then that's it for the year pretty much.

[epiphyte]

ooooo, that epiphyllum looks great on a tree!! in pots i gave up on them because they take up way too much space, they are very ungainly and sprawly, and their flowers are too short-lived. but then several years ago at a friend's place i tasted one of her epiphyllum fruits, and it was so good that i decided to try and start breeding them for fruit. progress has been glacial. i just started putting their seeds and a few cuttings on the orange trees in my 10 acre grove in central florida, so hopefully this will speed things up a bit. eventually epiphyllums will replace dragon fruit as the #1 commercially grown cactus fruit.

[Stan510]

They don't last long..but I recall they might do spotty flowering in the summer. Its hanging down longer than I expected. In pots its more shrubby. I'm going to have to try the fruit now!

[charlie]

Any of our UK members able to shed light on the fruit?