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Opening movement, "Epiphyllum," is also a drone excursion that layers loops, electronics, and electric six-string.
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Among the indicated species, we have: Wittiocactus panamensis, Rhipsalis pittieri, Epiphyllum columbiense, Disocactus ramulosus, all of which are protected in different national parks.
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It would be useless to attempt such a cross as Epiphyllum with Cereus giganteus, because of their widely different natures; but such crosses as
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It would not be easy to find a more beautiful object during winter than an Epiphyllum, 5 ft. or 6 ft. high, and nearly the same in width at the base, forming a dense pyramid of drooping, strap-like branches bearing several hundreds of their bright and delicate coloured blossoms all at one time, and lasting in beauty for several weeks.
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Thrips attack Phyllocactus, Rhipsalis, and Epiphyllum, especially when the plants are grown in less shade, or in a higher temperature, than is good for them.
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Grafts of Epiphyllum are then prepared by cutting them to the required length, usually about
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= -- There are some plants whose stem or branches, instead of assuming the ordinary cylindrical form, are compressed or flattened; such are some species of _Epiphyllum_, _Coccoloba_, _Bauhinia_, &c. The same thing occurs in the leaf-like branches of _Ruscus_, the flower-stalks of _Xylophylla_, _Phyllanthus_, _Pterisanthes_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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By using the pollen from one kind for dusting on to the stigma of another, hybrids may be obtained, and it is owing to the readiness with which the plants of this family cross with each other, that so many hybrids and forms of the genera Epiphyllum and Phyllocactus have been raised.
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_Echinopsis_, _Phyllocactus_, _Epiphyllum_, &c.; while those with short-tubed flowers are _Rhipsalis_, _Opuntia_, _Peireskia_, and one or two of minor importance.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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By growing a Pereskia on into a large plant, and then cutting it into any shape desired, we may, by grafting upon its spurs or branches a number of pieces of Epiphyllum, obtain large flowering specimens of various shapes in a comparatively short time.
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