As these bloom in the night, they were already beginning to close (and die) with the morning light so I ran back into the house and got my camera. I never remember exactly which epiphyllum these are, as there are so many, but it's similar to the Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum Oxypetalum), another night bloomer.

Here's an earlier pic of another flower on the same plant, again taken just as the flower was closing:

It pays to always have a camera in a pocket as one can never know what unexpected beauty is just around a corner.

SharonCb

Alexa

I like all kinds of cactus flowers.

Lars

Barnmom I love that datura.

Lars

Jessy we used to have that night blooming cereus in our garden - it's also called Queen of the Night - until someone accidentally pulled it out as it's quite an ugly creeping snake-like cactus. Whoever did that didn't realize that it produces the most wonderful flowers at night. Yes and the perfume was wonderful. I want to get another one.
I used to put a chair beside an opening flower and sit and watch it open as it grew dark!

Lars - that's one beautiful pink datura you have there! We also have a peach one we keep as a small bush in our back yard...

And we have at least two white daturas in our front garden. They put out shoots so rapidly that if we didn't dig them out, we'd have them growing all over. I love the perfume too...it's quite intoxicating.

But the heaviest night perfume comes from the Dama de Noche - Cestrum Nocturnum...
- another poisonous bush of the nightshade family, here seen one night in our back garden.
That and the scent of white jasmine - jasminum officinalis - not the pink-tipped Chinese jasmine, which I find too peppery - remind me of Mediterranean nights in Palma de Mallorca where jasmine and cestrum scented the air. When I moved to Tenerife I bought both those bushes for our garden so we could still experience those perfumed evenings.

SharonCb