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Posted by annabel__WA z3 W Australia (My Page) on Sat, Jan 8, 05 at 2:20
| I have several plants of these. A friend gave me a site to look in and they look like Rhipsalis crispata. Trouble is that while they look the saame, they do not flower the same and the descriptions I found are not much help. They both have huge flowers-one pink borne on the leaves and one creamy which come on long stems from the base of the plant several at once. Assolutely gorgeous and lasting a few days unlike the night flowering cactus which has much thinner leaves altogether-I've just been given some cuttings!!. The pink flowered first in Novemmber, then the white. Any suggestions? |
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RE: Rhipsalis
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| Surely if they have 'huge' flowers they cannot be Rhipsalis? More likely they are some of the so-called Epiphyllum hybrids (correctly Disocactus and not to be confused with true Epiphyllum like E. oxypetalum - queen-of-the-night). One old favourite with largish pink flowers is Deutsche Kaiserin, possibly just a form of Disocactus phyllanthoides, but there are other hybrids with much larger flowers in shades of pink, red, cream etc. And by the way, these plants are leafless but the stems are flattened and somewhat leaf-like, hence your description of them flowering on the leaves. As for your plant with cream flowers on "long stems from the base of the plant several at once", this is hard to visualise and does not bring anything to my mind. |
RE: Rhipsalis
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| Thanks, Tony, I'll have another go. Imagine the plant with these stems and from where they join all these growths, like new stems start coming out which end up as huge white/cream flowers. Stunning. |
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