Can you grow a night-blooming cereus? Do you know the origin of its name? A fleeting bloom for one person only

Original title: "Can you grow a night-blooming cereus but do you know the origin of the name 'night-blooming cereus'? A fleeting bloom for one person only"

Article summary "The night-blooming cereus, an epiphytic succulent shrub plant, grows on mountain peaks at an altitude above 1,000 m, and the night-blooming cereus likes to grow in warm and humid environments, and the night-blooming cereus is not cold-tolerant and is very afraid of strong direct sunlight. The night-blooming cereus now has the reputation of the beauty under the moon. After the night-blooming cereus slowly unfolds, it slowly withers again in one or two hours, and the whole process lasts only as long as four hours, hence the saying 'a fleeting bloom of the night-blooming cereus.'

The origin of the night-blooming cereus

The night-blooming cereus is distributed in many regions such as Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Suriname and Costa Rica, and is widely cultivated in various regions of the world, while the most common is that it is very common in the provinces and regions of China. As a very famous ornamental flower, the night-blooming cereus is called the beauty under the moon. The night-blooming cereus belongs to the Cactaceae family, also known as qionghua, the genus Epiphyllum, and on every summer and autumn festival, the night-blooming cereus will display a sky full of stars, and in the dead of night, it is exactly the time when the night-blooming cereus blooms.

The blooming of the night-blooming cereus

The night-blooming cereus displays that graceful color and posture while people are still asleep in their dreams, but the plain and fragrant night-blooming cereus has already closed in a flash, thus withering, and so the saying 'a fleeting bloom of the night-blooming cereus' appeared again, because of the inexplicable flowering nature of the night-blooming cereus, most flower lovers have a strong interest in it. The flower language represented by the night-blooming cereus is beauty of an instant, eternity of a moment. People once used the idiom 'a fleeting bloom of the night-blooming cereus' to metaphorically describe the impermanence of beautiful things. Although it is somewhat similar to the idiom 'in the snap of a finger,' the night-blooming cereus in mythology was originally a flower goddess who bloomed every day, and bloomed brilliantly in all four seasons, and the night-blooming cereus fell in love with the person who watered and weeded for her every day.

The myth and legend of the night-blooming cereus

Because this matter was later learned by the Jade Emperor, the Jade Emperor flew into a rage and wanted to break up this pair of lovebirds, then the Jade Emperor arrested the flower goddess and demoted her to a night-blooming cereus that could only bloom for an instant each year. In order not to let her meet her lover again, he sent that young man to Lingjiu Mountain to become a monk, granting him the name Weituo, and made him forget the past, forget the flower goddess.

Weituo really forgot the flower goddess

But many years really passed in a turn, and Weituo really forgot the flower goddess, and devoted himself to studying Buddhism, gradually achieving something, but the flower goddess could not forget that young man who had once taken care of her no matter what. The flower goddess knew that every year in late spring, Weituo would always come down the mountain to collect morning dew to brew tea for the Buddha, so the night-blooming cereus chose to bloom exactly at that time. It bloomed in that instant the vital essence it had gathered for more than a year. He merely hoped that Weituo could turn back and look at her, and could remember her.

Conclusion: But in the blink of an eye, thousands of years have passed. Every year Weituo came down the mountain to collect morning dew, and the night-blooming cereus silently bloomed year after year, but Weituo never remembered her, until one day, a gaunt man walked past the night-blooming cereus, saw the flower goddess's lonely and bitter feelings, stopped his steps and asked the flower goddess, why are you sad. The flower goddess was very surprised, because if it were a mortal, they could not see the true body of the flower goddess, but a great golden immortal has golden light above their head, yet the one who had just walked past was a mortal. After hesitating for a moment, the flower goddess answered, you cannot help me, and then silently waited for Weituo again. That fleeting bloom of the night-blooming cereus is only for one Weituo, and the night-blooming cereus is also called the Weituo flower.