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Thanksgiving Cactus cv 'Sunburst Red' (Schlumbergera truncata) on the left
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Christmas Cactus cv 'Grandma Russell' (Schlumbergera x buckleyi) on the right.
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The Christmas Cacti in various colors that we see everywhere during the holidays are NOT really the true Christmas Cacti. These are clones selected for their colors and growth habits and are given various cultivar names. These commercial varieties in an wide array of spectacular colors have been selected and/or induced by chemical and biological manipulation.
The true or heirloom Christmas Cactus had descended from one of William Buckley's hybrid Schlumbergera russelliana X Schlumbergera truncata plants in the 1840s in the Rollisson Nurseries of England and are commonly known now as Schlumbergera x buckleyi.
There are possibly two, perhaps three slightly different surviving clones (vegetative descendents e.g. by layering or cuttings) of three hybrids of this cross, named
Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Buckleyi',
Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Rollissonii'
Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Snowii'
'Buckleyi' = White tube shading to magenta petals
'Rollissonii' = Flowers magenta in color
'Snowii' = Smaller magenta flowers and stem segments.
The Thanksgiving Cactus cv 'Sunburst Red' shown here was from the Rockledge Gardens, Rockledge, Florida, USA.
The true Christmas Cactus shown here, lovingly called Grandma Russell, had been propagated from cuttings as it got handed down over few generations in a course of at least 100 years or more from the grand matriarch of the Russell Family of Merritt Island, Florida, USA.
For more;
cactus.biology.dal.ca/paulS/christmas/christmas.html
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Varronia truncata (Fresen.) Borhidi
BORAGINACEAE
Local: Campus da Universidade de BrasÃlia, BrasÃlia, DF, Brasil.
Ref.: Salles, A.E.H. Jardim Botânico de BrasÃlia. 2007.
Gomesa cuneata (Scheidw.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams, Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 104: 396 (2009).
Homotypic Names:
* Oncidium cuneatum Scheidw., Allg. Gartenzeitung 10: 309 (1842).
Oncidium remotiflorum Garay, Taxon 19: 454 (1970), nom. superfl.
Baptistonia remotiflora (Garay) Chiron & V.P.Castro, Richardiana 4: 118 (2004).
Gomesa remotiflora (Garay) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams, Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 104: 398 (2009), nom. superfl.
* Basionym/Replaced Synonym
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Oncidium truncatum Pabst, OrquÃdea (Rio de Janeiro) 17: 45 (1955).
Baptistonia truncata (Pabst) Chiron & V.P.Castro, Richardiana 4: 118 (2004).
Gomesa truncata (Pabst) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams, Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 104: 398 (2009).
Native, warm-season annual or short-lived perennial, erect, hairless, tufted C4 grass usually less than 50 cm tall and forming a dense low crown; sometimes short stolons are present. Stems are unbranched and flattened with a knee-like bend near their base. Flowerheads are digitate, usually with 6-9 branches 4-20 cm long. Mostly found along roadsides and in native pastures where groundcover and fertility are relatively low; rarely abundant. Readily colonises bare ground and areas subject to compaction or shallow soils. Native biodiversity. Of little significance for grazing, it has low to moderate quality and low productivity. Tolerant of set stocking and close grazing, it is better suited to sheep than cattle due to the low height of its foliage. Favoured by grazing systems that maintain low groundcover. It has little response to fertiliser inputs.
Telopea truncata flowering on the Zig-Zag track on Mount Wellinton with North West Bay in the background.
Seeds of Windmill Grass (Chloris truncata).
Nursery, Playford Operations Centre, Davoren Park, City of Playford, South Australia.
Thanksgiving Cactus: RED
Schlumbergera truncata cv 'Red' / Family Cactaceae
Rockledge Gardens, Rockledge, Florida, USA.
P.S.: 'Red' was the tag from the Grower.
Nepenthes truncata. This was the first nepenthes I saw. Chris saw them first and I was thrilled it was a big truncata. Most of the pitchers were on the way out though.
I took the oldest N. truncta seedling out of the seed tray and put it in this pot. I bagged it and sprayed the bag with distilled water. I suspect it's time to start hardening it off. I don't know if this is the right way to do it. It's used to 100% humidity. Perhaps I'll leave it in this bag one more week then start acclimating it to room temp by making a hole in the bag like every 5 days or so. Advice? It's my first time rasing baby nepenthes.
Soil is 1 part peat 2 parts milled sphagnum 3 parts perlite with top dressing milled sphag and the media the seedling was originally in lifted right out so as to not disturbe the roots.