''Rhipsalidopsis rosea'',
synonyms
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''Hatiora rosea'' and ''Schlumbergera rosea'', is a
species
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of
flowering plant
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in the family
Cactaceae
A cactus (: cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (), a family of the order Caryophyllales comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, ...
, native to south Brazil.
[ It was first described, as ''Rhipsalis rosea'', by Gustaf Lagerheim in 1912.][ It is one of the parents of the hybrid ''Rhipsalidopsis'' × ''graeseri'', grown as the Easter or Whitsun cactus.][
File:Schlumbergera rosea 050517 1.jpg, Habit (in cultivation)
File:Rhipsalidopsis rosea-326914.jpg, Flower from below (in cultivation)
]
References
Rhipsalideae
Flora of South Brazil
Plants described in 1912
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