A. The orchid cactus is a beautiful flowering plant that does not fit the typical idea we associate with cacti. The Epiphyllum orchid cactus is a rain forest dweller, not a desert inhabitant. This ...

Grow an orchid cactus and be rewarded with spectacular scarlet, pink and white blooms. Sometimes called epies, short for epiphyllums, the tropical plants are not really orchids. They love moisture and ...

Dear Jane: I've been trying to figure out the name of a plant that sort of resembles a Christmas cactus. I've asked at several garden centers about it, but no one knows it and no garden center has it ...

The biggest problem with growing orchid cacti is figuring out just what they are. They are cacti, but are not spiny. Their spectacular blossoms are neither orchids nor orchid-like. Sometimes orchid ...

The world's first known night-flowering orchid has been discovered on New Britain island, near Papua New Guinea, experts from Kew Gardens have said. The species, Bulbophyllum nocturnum, is the first ...

The genus epiphyllum consists of tropical epiphytic cacti that live mainly in trees in Mexico, Central America and South America. The plants do not have true leaves but produce strappy, leaflike stems ...

Q: I fell in love with a plant last year while visiting a small town in northern Italy. They call it lingua di donna, roughly translated "lady's tongue." What do we call this plant in the United ...