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Gerald L. Klingaman
(Buckley's Christmas Cactus, Christmas Cactus, True Christmas Cactus)
The appeal of this elegant spineless cactus cannot be overstated. Christmas cactus is the beloved wintertime bloomer that is widely cultivated as an indoor specimen or garden plant where hardy. It is a cross between two Brazilian species, Schlumbergera russelliana and S. truncata, which are both less vigorous and have fewer flowers.
Plants have a broad almost shrubby habit with flattened layered stems that are often pendulous. When large container-grown plants are in bloom...
Gerald L. Klingaman
(Claw Cactus, False Christmas Cactus, Thanksgiving Cactus, Yoke Cactus, Zygo Cactus)
The brilliant flowers of this fall or early winter-flowering cactus will brighten any home.
Native to Brazil, the false Christmas cactus is a tree-dwelling (epiphytic), spineless cactus with flattened, segmented, succulent stems. Each segment has four to eight shallow teeth. The showy tubular flowers have long, magenta petals that curve, or reflex, backward, and a showy sheaf of long pale stamens. Flowers appear from late fall into winter, and white, pink, purple or orange-flowered varieties are...
