My Special Treasure
by Christina Verdgeline
Title
My Special Treasure
Artist
Christina Verdgeline
Medium
Photograph - Macro Digital Photograph
Description
My mother always seems to have great luck with flowers, especially the cacti we call Christmas Cactus. This is a macro closeup of one of her blossoms when I visited... it opened beautifully in late Spring, early Summer! Then again over the holidays! We�re looking at a delicate multi-layered heart of the flower, makes me remember childhood dreams and family fun, special occasions with people dear to me. Inspirational and full of hope and love.
Wikipedia: 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 cylindrical stems more similar to other cacti. In Brazil, the genus is referred to as Flor de Maio (May flower), reflecting the period in which they flower in the Southern Hemisphere.
This genus contains the popular house plants known by a variety of names including Christmas Cactus, Thanksgiving Cactus, Crab Cactus and Holiday Cactus, which areSchlumbergera cultivars, and flower in white, pink, yellow, orange, red or purple. (The Easter Cactus or Whitsun Cactus, which may also be called a Holiday Cactus and has vivid scarlet flowers in the most commonly grown form, is now placed in the genus Hatiora.)
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January 18th, 2016
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