Scientific Name: Hatiora 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:
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 4-8cm long with crenate margins; soft brown spines (leaf remnants) usually absent; flowers 2-6cm wide with many petals having radial symmetry.