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Night-blooming cereus is the common name referring to a large number of flowering Cereus cacti that bloom at night.
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Night-blooming cereus. jpg | Hylocereus undatus showing the style and stigma, and stamens
Carpenter bee with pollen collected from Night-blooming cereus
Night-blooming and night
* Queen of the night, Cestrum nocturnum, a woody evergreen commonly known as Night-blooming Cestrum
cereus and is
B. thuringiensis is closely related to B. cereus, a soil bacterium, and B. anthracis, the cause of anthrax: the three organisms differ mainly in their plasmids.
Bacillus cereus is an endemic, soil-dwelling, Gram-positive, rod-shaped, beta hemolytic bacterium.
The night-blooming cereus is also referred to as princess of the night, Honolulu queen ( for Hylocereus undatus ), and queen of the night.
* In Bride of the Water God by Yun Mi-kyung, the night-blooming cereus is referred to as the " Loneliness of the Night " and refers most specifically to Epiphyllum oxypetalum.
The generic name is derived from the Greek word άκανθα ( acantha ), meaning spine, and the Latin word cereus, meaning candle.
stenos, narrow, L. cereus, candle ) is a genus of columnar or tree-like cacti from the Baja California Peninsula and other parts of Mexico, Arizona in the United States, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Venezuela and the ABC islands of the Dutch Caribbean.
The golden cereus ( Bergerocactus emoryi ) is a species of cactus.
The plant is also known as golden spine cereus or snake cactus, though this latter name also applies for Echinocereus pensilis.
Armatocereus ( from Latin armatus, " armed " and cereus, " pliant / soft ") is a genus of mostly tree-like cacti from South America ( Colombia, Ecuador to Peru ).
Jasminocereus ( meaning " jasmine-like cereus ", referring to the flowers ) is a genus of cacti.
The term cereus is also used to describe cacti with very elongated bodies, including columnar growth cacti and epiphytic cacti.
Pilosocereus ( from Latin, " hairy cereus ") is a genus of cactus.
The generic name is derived from Σελήνη ( Selene ), the Greek moon goddess, and cereus, meaning " candle " in Latin, referring to the nocturnal flowers.
The term nightblooming cereus is sometimes used here, but this is also used for many night blooming cacti, including Epiphyllum, Hylocereus and Peniocereus.
cereus and name
* The night-blooming cereus was also featured in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy book series as the name of one of the Thirteen Houses of the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers.
The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος ( echinos ), meaning " hedgehog ," and the Latin cereus meaning " candle.
Its name was formed from Greek and means " mountain cereus ".
cereus and large
Regardless of genus or species, night-blooming cereus flowers are almost always white, often large, and frequently fragrant.
While some night-blooming cereus are grown indoors in homes or greenhouses in colder climates, most of these plants are too large or ungainly for this treatment, and are only found outdoors in tropical areas.
Some night-blooming cereus plants produce fruits which are large enough for people to consume.
cereus and flowering
Most night-blooming cereus refer to flowering cacti of the Cereus genus.
cereus and cacti
While many cacti referred to as night-blooming cereus belong to the Tribe Cereeae, other night-blooming cacti in the Subfamily Cactoideae may also be called night-blooming cereus.
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Taylor, Turtle, Lou Ann and Dwayne Ray witness the blooming of the cereus flower at their neighbours ' house ( Edna Poppy and Virgie Mae Parsons ) towards the end of the novel ( chapter 13 ).
cereus and night
), night blooming cereus ( Peniocereus spp.
* Queen of the night, Nightblooming cereus, several genera and species of cactus
cereus and .
Two Bacillus species are considered medically significant: B. anthracis, which causes anthrax, and B. cereus, which causes a foodborne illness similar to that of Staphylococcus.
One clade, formed by B. anthracis, B. cereus, B. mycoides, B. pseudomycoides, B. thuringiensis and B. weihenstephanensis under current classification standards, should be a single species ( within 97 % 16S identity ), but due to medical reasons, they are considered separate species, an issue also present for four species of Shigella and Escherichia coli.
However, some bacteria such as Clostridium botulinum or Bacillus cereus, can form spores that survive cooking, which then germinate and regrow after the food has cooled.
B. cereus bacteria are facultative anaerobes, and like other members of the genus Bacillus can produce protective endospores.
B. cereus competes with other microorganisms such as Salmonella and Campylobacter in the gut, so its presence reduces the numbers of those microorganisms.
Bacteria having a centrally placed endospore include Bacillus cereus, and those having a subterminal endospore include Bacillus subtilis.
Its proximity to the winter solstice ( December 25 on the Julian calendar ) was endowed with various meanings by both ancient and modern scholars ; for instance, the widespread use of wax candles ( cerei, singular cereus ) may refer to " the returning power of the sun's light after the solstice.
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Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.
Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.
However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.
But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.
As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.
What is the common man's complaint??
But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
They all have this in common: the earth is situated near the center of the deferent.
But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.
Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.
A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.
Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.
If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.
In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage, more troublesome, and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate.
`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.
To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.
British common sense is proverbial.
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