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What plant is this?

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  • 07-04-2018 5:10pm
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    tmq
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭


    Hi,
    My friend has this plant in a bedroom.... any idea what it is? It is always looking healthy and often blooming.


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    zoe 3619
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    It's a christmas cactus.Think there's also another name for it,but I can't remember what it is.


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    freewheeler
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    Christmas cactus i believe!


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    Graces7
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    tmq wrote: »
    Hi,
    My friend has this plant in a bedroom.... any idea what it is? It is always looking healthy and often blooming.

    A rather lovely Christmas Cactus. Blooms at many times,


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    my3cents
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    Schlumbergia truncata, https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=840 .


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Let it more or less dry out from now through the summer - it can even go outside in summer - begin gradual watering in Autumn and it'll flower strongly for Christmas.


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    my3cents
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    The OP's pick is definity a Schlumbergia and probably tuncata but could also be bridgesii, but I think there are loads of hybrids.

    There are a lot of very similar cactus and the one that normally flowers at this time of year Easter Cactus (different leaf segments) is a Rhipsalidopsis.


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