Night Blooming Cereus

This is the flower of the night blooming Cereus...I know it looks like it's part of this fern, but in fact the leaves of the plant come out of the pot and hang way, way down. The blooms are nearer the ground, at the lower ends of the broad leaves.
This is the very plant my mother had in her greenhouse when we were small children. She would sneak into or rooms at night and leave one bloom in each room (they smell so good.
These days, I come out early in the morning and see them before they close.
We keep the pot in the greenhouse in the winter, and in the spring we move it into a crepe myrtle tree. Yes, it's hard to get this pot lowered into the tree, and even harder to get it out in the fall!

Night Blooming Cereus are easily propagated from a leaf and, at least in my experience, this plant will be around for the rest of your life if you can keep it from freezing...