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This is a photo of my Thanksgiving Cactus.
Naturally it didn’t bloom for our early Canadian Thanksgiving. Nope, it’s named for the American Thanksgiving obviously. Each year without fail my Thanksgiving cactus starts blooming like crazy.
Most people would call this a Christmas Cactus because they don’t realize that there are actually three types of Schlumbergera. There is one that blooms in November in the Northern Hemisphere, one that blooms around Christmas time and into the new year, and yet another species that bloom around Easter.
I have two of these species- the one in the photo above is a Thanks Giving Cactus and I’m watching my Christmas cactus begin to develop tiny flower buds already. I guess I gave it a very good cool down this autumn because it seems very happy.
This cactus has orangey red flowers, but my Christmas cactus has bright pink flowers. If I had to pick between the two I’d say that the colour of my Christmas Cactus flowers are my favorite.
If you are interested in learning how to tell the different species apart please come back on Monday and I’ll have an article posted about the differences between these three species.
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I saw some Christmas Cactus for sale at the grocery store this week and was so tempted to purchase one. Most all of them were already blooming. I need to remember to come back here to read what you write about taking care of them so I can decide whether or not to give it a try 🙂
SO beautiful!
I love Schlumbergera. I’ve had mine for about 5 years now. It bloomed the first Christmas, and now it seems to bloom when it feels like it. As long as it keeps blooming, I’m happy!
That’s a cactus bloom??? I thought its some from orchid family…
That’s so pretty! I bet even the budding is reddish too. Is it?
You most certainly do have a green thumb.
Wow. that looks almost unreal with the light coming from behind like that! Fantastic.