====== Night-Blooming Cereus ======
<div #singlebox>
---- dataentry herbs----
latin_names: Cereus grandiflorus
folk_names: 
gender_tags: Feminine
planet_tags: Moon
element_tags: Water
deity_tags: 
effect_tags: Psychism
----
</div>

<ifauth @user>
===== Aromatherapy =====

As a boy, I remember looking at the rather homely, straggly cactus for years, wondering why my father ever planted it. Then it formed buds. One night we all dragged chairs into the front yard and watched as the spear-shaped buds burst open into 12-inch flowers with delicate white petals and a center of hundreds of yellow stamens. It was an awesome sight. The scent was heavenly, but by morning the flowers had withered and died.

The appearance and fragrance of these flowers is exquisite. If you live in a warm climate, by all means grow a night-blooming cereus. In the future you’ll be rewarded by the type of special effects Hollywood can only dream of producing.

The flowers freely exude a tangy vanilla-like aroma into the cool night air. If you have the opportunity to smell them, do so while visualizing complete control over your conscious mind, a control that nurtures psychic awareness.

This is truly one of the queens of the realm of flowers.
</ifauth>