Forum: gardening.stackexchange.com
Tags: <identification><succulents>
Title: What is this huge succulent plant?
Question: I recently saw this plant in a shop. It looks like an amazingly big succulent.  What kind is it? I wonder if it needs much light and if it produces flowers?     Edit  Zoom to the area where flowers emerge(I suspect):

Answers:
sents: text: It reminds me of a Night Blooming Cereus.
text: I've never grown one, so can't comment on their need.
text: My folks have theirs growing in normal household conditions, getting western light.
text: They are amazing plants - sending up fragrant blooms that last a single night.
text: This page seems to offer a decent overview.
answer_details: author: gardening.stackexchange.com/users/16406/Ben
score: 8
sents: text: On first sight i also thought it was sone kind of fern but the zoom shows definitely a cactus.
text: What you were zooming in at is a new leaf , not a blossom.
text: In my opinion it is species out of genus Epiphyllum.
text: From your photos it is hard to determine which species exactly so i would suggest to google "epiphyllum" and look for photos.
text: Edit: maybe epiphyllum oxypetalum, due to the thin, fernlike leaves, but this is mere speculation.
text: Edit 2:
text: Night-blooming cereus (selenicereus grandiflorus) is definitely wrong.
text: Those have angular stems and nothing that resembles leaves.
text: Final edit:I am quite sure now that itis epiphyllum oxipetalum.
text: I found a video on youtube featuring the plant:
text: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CXxFdpT7CZA
answer_details: author: gardening.stackexchange.com/users/16789/Stephan Otto
score: 4
sents: text: I'm pretty sure it is a "Queen of the Night".
text: They only bloom at night and have an intoxicating fragrance.
text: Occasional watering.
text: One of the most beautiful flowers we have ever raised.
answer_details: author: gardening.stackexchange.com/users/19662/Steve Bloom
score: 2
sents: text: This one of the 'Bird's Nest Ferns'...a very sick one at that.
text: These plants need an awful lot of humidity, perfect fluffy soil (potting soil), acidic soil, no tap water, water that is pure pure pure.
text: Very sensitive.
text: The perfect combination of chemicals (fertilizer), lots and lots of micro/macro organisms.
text: You'll find these in stores sold as house plants.
text: Very few ever make it for long unless its owner understands a fern's needs.
text: Certainly not a succulent which is a desert plant.
text: This is a rain forest plant.
text: You should see how beautiful these are when healthy.
text: You'd have to go to a production greenhouse dedicated to growing ferns.
text: They last long enough to make the owner feel as if they've done something wrong.
text: They either quit purchasing plants and call themselves a black thumb, OR they'll try again buy purchasing even more 'stuff' to baby their plant.
text: Ferns do not produce flowers nor seed.
text: They produce spores for reproduction.
answer_details: author: gardening.stackexchange.com/users/3351/stormy
score: 1
sents: text: Here's a photo and information on Kangaroo Fern ( Microsorum diversifolium - not entirely sure it is that, but it might be.
text: Obviously, the one in your pictures isn't in great condition.
text: I'm not sure it's exactly the right one, but I can't think of any other that I know that it might be.
text: No flowers, bit of a sprawler and its an epiphytic fern.
text: I don't think it's attractive in any way, but each to his own, we're all different and have different tastes.
answer_details: author: gardening.stackexchange.com/users/1380/Bamboo
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
It looks like a Night Blooming Cereus, a Queen of the Night or Bird's Nest Fern.
It could be a Night Blooming Cereus or a cactus. It may also be "Queen of the Night" or a 'Bird's Nest Ferns' or one of the genus Epiphyllum.