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Christmas cacti
Schlumbergera
Schlumbergera is a small genus of cacti with six species found in the coastal mountains of south-eastern Brazil. 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. Most species of Schlumbergera have stems which resemble leaf-like pads joined one to the other and flowers which appear from areoles at the joints and tips of the stems. Two species have...
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Crab Cactus
speciesSchlumbergera truncata
Christmas Cactus
hybridSchlumbergera × buckleyi
Schlumbergera opuntioides
speciesSchlumbergera opuntioides
Schlumbergera russelliana
speciesSchlumbergera russelliana
Schlumbergera microsphaerica
speciesSchlumbergera microsphaerica
Schlumbergera kautskyi
speciesSchlumbergera kautskyi
Schlumbergera orssichiana
speciesSchlumbergera orssichiana
Schlumbergera lutea
speciesSchlumbergera lutea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 51224.