Epiphyllum In Bloom

                                     

Our beautiful Epi

                    In our garden our Epiphyllum "orange bouquet" flowered. It was a gift to our class from one of our teacher's friends, Yvette. She gave us a lot of plants at the beginning of the 4th grade. It is fun to see the plants she gave us flower. The class is happy that the Epiphyllum burst into flower. It is a pearly red/orange flower. The stamen is white. It was perked up and looked like it was waiting for us to come to school.   

Morning Surprise

When we got to our garden this MORNING, this was our SURPRISE. 

This was the beautiful flower that we just got to put in our Epiphyte Garden. It was finally opened. It was given to us by our friend, The. It is called an Epiphyllum. When we first look at it is seems to be only hot pink but, a closer look shows many other colors. The colors of  petals are vibrant pink and striped with orange. The stamens and Stigma are white. The Style and Filaments are pink. The Anthers are yellow which makes it interesting to look at. 

We plan to propagate, grow from cutting, the plant so that we can have a lot of it. Maybe each of us can get a piece.

Today we get to enjoy looking at the flower because it does not last for a long time.