Flowering tonight?

[FredG]

And the site crashes

[jhb]

What a beautiful flower

[juster]

That's great to see

[edds]

Took three attempts to load it but a cracking flower.

[Tony R]

Paint brush pollination at 18.50

[Mike P]

That is a lot more exotic than your run of the mill Selenicereus grandiflorus.

[Ali Baba]

Wonderful to see and also wonderful that it has made it to the national news

[FredG]

[Pattock]

Very lovely.

But it didn't occur to anyone that this was going to set the name moonflower in stone for hundreds of thousands of people? They could have called it the clingy moonflower, the Igapó moonflower, the flood moonflower, Witt's mooncandle or the Amazon flood dragon flower. They could have been a little more wittii.

Moonflower has been used of Leucanthemum vulgare, Glebionis (Chrysanthemum) segetum, various fragrant, white, night-flowering Convolvulaceae, Mentzelia pumila and some Brugmansia.

According to POWO this is Strophocactus wittii. Anyone care to discuss whether Rowley or Britton & Rose were correct? I don't suppose "Witt's swaddling cardoon" would have got the headlines.

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:l ... s:246169-2

Edited to add: "splendid treehugger".

[Phil_SK]

According to POWO this is Strophocactus wittii. Anyone care to discuss whether Rowley or Britton & Rose were correct?

It's Strophocactus, since it's only a fairly distant relation of the selenicerei. https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... the_genera (which also contains photos of the flowers)