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Re: Hardy Disocactus

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Looking amazing Mike. I hope mine looks half this good in a few years!
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Wow. Just Wow.
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Oooh!
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Fantastic!
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That's a real cracker, Mike!
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I am absolutely amazed, that after 14 replies to the original posting of this topic on the forum, no-one has mentioned that for many decades, and currently still to many growers, this plant is known in cultivation not as Disocactus, but as Aporocactus! This is Aporocactus flagellliformis ... also widely referred to as the Rat's Tail Cactus.. This is a sensational plant, originating from the oak forests in the Sierra Mixteca in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where I have on a couple of occasions been overwhelmed to see large numbers of flowering plants with stems hanging well over 6ft in length, sprawling and trailing all over the boughs and branches, and hanging profusely from the trees along with myriad bromeliads and occasional peperomias and ferns, just below the altitude where the pine forest takes over from the oaks. In its natural habitat it would never experience temperatures anywhere near freezing, so the fact that people in the UK are able to grow it in such challenging conditions is surprising and maybe even miraculous!
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Aporocactus it is then David!

Indeed, that was what it was called when I first acquired it.
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From Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Disocactus (Cactaceae), based on the DNA sequences of six chloroplast markers https://bioone.org/journals/willdenowia ... 46112.full
Moreover, our results allow us to exclude Aporocactus from Disocactus and recognize it as an independent genus. Nevertheless, its relationship with the subtribe Hylocereinae merits its own study because only the BI phylogenetic analysis showed high support.
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