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Scientific Name: | Schlumbergera truncata |
Common Name: | Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas cactus |
Family Name: | Cactaceae |
Origin: | South America |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant, Succulent or Cacti |
Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Arching, Epiphytic |
Form: | Weeping |
Texture: | Coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Leathery, Glabrous, Deltoid, Other, Entire |
Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Orange, Yellow, Pink, Red, Sep-Oct-Nov, Can flower any month |
Fruit: | Berry (true), Red |
Key ID Features: | |
Stems flattened, green, and toothed with soft spines (remnants of leaves); flowers with bilateral symmtry, terminal and solitary. |