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Crab Cactus
Plate 1 of 9. (c) Felipe Tubarão, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Felipe Tubarão · via iNaturalist
IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Crab Cactus

Schlumbergera truncata

Schlumbergera truncata, the false Christmas cactus, is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is endemic to a small area of the coastal mountains of south-eastern Brazil where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist forests. It is the parent or one of the parents of the houseplants called Christmas cactus or Thanksgiving cactus, among other names.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51223.