According to the New York Times, the writer Eudora Welty, from Jackson, MS, started a group called the Night Blooming Cereus Club in the 1930s, with the motto, “Don’t take it cereus.

At the edge of the porch, our night-blooming cereus had offered its first bloom of the year. Maybe you already know about the night-blooming cereus, a cactus that usually lives up to its name by ...