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Give it full sun and barely any water; it's a true desert cactus that does best outdoors. Greenish flowers appear on the tips of stems. Sierralara - Getty Images
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Schlumbergera truncata, the false Christmas cactus, [1] is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae.Because it produces a flower, it also belongs to the taxonomic group Magnoliophyta and is thus considered an angiosperm. [2]
Watering Needs Of A Christmas Cactus. Because the Christmas cactus is native to humid environments in South America, it has different watering needs than a cactus you'd find in the desert.
Schlumbergera is a small genus of cacti with six to nine species found in the coastal mountains of south-eastern Brazil.These plants grow on trees or rocks in habitats that are generally shady with high humidity, and can be quite different in appearance from their desert-dwelling cousins.
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As with many other species of the genus (see Schlumbergera: Taxonomy), other generic names were used afterwards: Zygocactus (Löfgren in 1918), Epiphyllanthus (Moran in 1953) and finally Schlumbergera (David Hunt in 1969). [4] Thus the synonyms of S. opuntioides (Loefgr. & Dusén) D.R.Hunt include: [4] Epiphyllum obovatum Engelm. ex K.Schum ...