I bought this as Hatiora salicornioides at Harrogate Flower Show but it doesn't look like I'd expect it to look. I'm wondering if it's a Rhipsalis.
I dont think it is a Hatiora salicornioides by Kathy, on Flickr
I dont think it is a Hatiora salicornioides by Kathy, on Flickr
Hatiora or Rhipsalis?
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Re: Hatiora or Rhipsalis?
Rhipsalis, something like R. cereuscula.
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I agree with Anders. It is starting to show the long shoots that Rhipsalis have and Hatiora do not.
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Re: Hatiora or Rhipsalis?
I think it's Rhipsalis cassutha - Mistletoe cactus.
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Thanks for the ID, I think it is a Rhipsalis cereuscula. I have done a Google search and small plants look pretty similar to it.
Is this one a Rhipsalis cereuscula too? It looks pretty different to the one I just bought, but then it's a bigger plant that I've had for years. This one was bought from a garden centre so it will be one of the common ones. It didn't come with a label but I'd always thought it was R. cereuscula.
Rhipsalis cereuscula, I think by Kathy, on Flickr
Rhipsalis cereuscula, I think by Kathy, on Flickr
Is this one a Rhipsalis cereuscula too? It looks pretty different to the one I just bought, but then it's a bigger plant that I've had for years. This one was bought from a garden centre so it will be one of the common ones. It didn't come with a label but I'd always thought it was R. cereuscula.
Rhipsalis cereuscula, I think by Kathy, on Flickr
Rhipsalis cereuscula, I think by Kathy, on Flickr
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Re: Hatiora or Rhipsalis?
The plant you show in the first picture with the £5 label is Hatiora salicornioides
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Re: Hatiora or Rhipsalis?
Are the stems not too long?
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Re: Hatiora or Rhipsalis?
Not wishing to confuse things, but apparently there are two forms of Hatiora salicornioides, one with shorter nodes than the other. And according to some people, they're all Rhipsalis anyway!
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Re: Hatiora or Rhipsalis?
But still relatively uniform in length, I guess?Mike wrote:apparently there are two forms of Hatiora salicornioides, one with shorter nodes than the other
I guessed at R. cereuscula because it grows long stems that ends in clusters of much shorter, slightly thicker stems, and your plant seems to by trying to do that even if the "long" stems are a bit short still (it is a young plant). I have not (yet) seen a plant labelled cassutha with that growth pattern, and its stems are thinner. It is not H. salicornioides, which has short, bottle-shaped, mostly spineless stems.
The second plant: could be cereuscula as far as I can tell, but both plants are still small and Rhipsalis are hard to identify.
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I have seen plants listed as Hatiora bambusoides, which seems to be a form of H. salicornioides, and seems to have different shaped stems, but still doesn't look like the one I just bought. I think it seems most likely it is a mislabelled Rhipsalis cereuscula.
There seems to be quite a small number of Rhipsalis species or subspecies/forms grown commercially on a large scale so that narrows down the options. That's how I figured my plant in the hanging pot I posted was probably R. cereuscula because it looked most like it out of the ones likely to turn up in a garden centre.
There seems to be quite a small number of Rhipsalis species or subspecies/forms grown commercially on a large scale so that narrows down the options. That's how I figured my plant in the hanging pot I posted was probably R. cereuscula because it looked most like it out of the ones likely to turn up in a garden centre.