especially on older plants
it actually belongs to the Agave
your blue cactus thrives best with at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day and needs gradual sun exposure to prevent sunburn
To propagate your Elephant's Trunk plant
Exposition: The plant tolerates extremely bright situations
Cereus aethiops Living Gifts especially on older plantsOrigin and Habitat: Argentina Cereus aethiops is a shrubby, erect, more or less columnar cactus, sometimes prostrate, usually much branched from the base, to 2 m high, 1. 5 m wide, with blue waxy coating on young stems and peculiar black spines. It is one of the few true Cereus which will flower when small (on 50 cm tall plants), the night blooming flowers are fragrant, white to pale pink, to 20 cm long. Cultivation and Propagation: Cereus aethiops is