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Peniocereus greggii
Also called Nightblooming cereus, Desert Night-blooming Cereus, Arizona Queen Of The Night, Deer Horn Cactus, Night Blooming Cereus, Sweet Potato Cactus, Gregg's Nightblooming Cereus
A desert cactus with long, scrambling gray-green stems and a large edible tuber, grown for its huge white, vanilla-scented flowers that open for one night each summer. It needs very sharp drainage and a dry, sunny spot.
Peniocereus greggii is a cactus species native to southern United States and Mexico.
Plants are found in Arizona, New Mexico (Dona Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, and Luna County), Texas (Big Bend Region), USA; and Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Sonora, and Zacatecas (Mexico) at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters. They tend to be ubiquitous throughout the higher Sonoran Desert area around Tucson. Plants grow in silty soil with desert scrub and plants such as Larrea divaricata and Neltuma glandulosa.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Peniocereus greggii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
