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Scientific Name: | Rhipsalidopsis x graeseri |
Common Name: | Easter cactus |
Family Name: | Cactaceae |
Origin: | Garden origin, South America |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant, Succulent or Cacti |
Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Arching, Epiphytic, Pendulous |
Form: | Weeping |
Texture: | Medium - coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Whorled, Prickly, Glabrous, Acicular, Other, Entire |
Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Orange, Pink, Red, Mar-Apr |
Fruit: | Berry (true), Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Green, Red, Dark-red |
Key ID Features: | |
Flattened stem segments (cladophylls), most 4-8cm long x 2-3cm wide, margins crenate; soft brown spines (leaf remnants) usually absent; flowers radially symmetrical, 4-7cm wide with 20-25 elliptic tepals 2-3cm long x 3-8mm wide. |