CactiNOID

[mrobert]

Just returned from a 1-week vacation and found these! No iidea what the cactus is as I picked it out of the trash a few months ago. I can't get over the size and beauty of the flowers; this is my first experience with flowering cacti. Sorry for the unusual ambient light and coloring...it is due to the wild fires...








I think this looks like a swan's butt:

[bellini girl]

Can't ID it but it sure is beautiful in bloom

Lecent

[Grandma M]

Beautiful trash rescue. It looks like a rather large plant. Possibly someone didn't have room for it.

[Chubidubi]

OMGosh that is so beautiful but did you say it looks like a swan's butt

[CoolPhrog]

Beautiful plant and bloom but it kinda reminds me of Audrey, Jr. from Little Shop of Horrors!

[mrobert]

Originally Posted by Grandma M

Beautiful trash rescue. It looks like a rather large plant. Possibly someone didn't have room for it.

These cacti seem to grow in large stands, I just picked up three "stalks" from someone's rubbish pile and set them in some sandy soil.

[Gin]

Is it a night bloomer ? with a sweet scent ?
I had one in Calif. that looks a lot like yours , trying to remember the name of it , it grew in a planter outside and was past the roof gutters , it perfumed the whole yard when in bloom . Yours is beautiful ..here is a link with quite a few different types that go by the name cereus .. Gin Nightblooming cereus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Ross]

It strongly resembles Cereus thurberi (Organ-Pipe Cactus) and the flowers are a dead ringer. I always thought this needed to be larger to bloom, thus my reluctance to say for sure. Here are a couple additional ID points to see if this is, in fact Organ-pipe:

Flowers white with heavy waxy petals, 2-2.5" diameter, inner white petals, pink or reddish outer petals. Flower buds exude droplets of sugar which may attract hummingbirds. Fruit globular, 2-3" long, edible but saccharin sweet; pulp red, staining. Any of this sound right?

[Gin]

have to agree with Ross for once gin

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Gin

have to agree with Ross for once gin

Come on Gin... we've agreed before, right