Some plants are easier to propagate than others, and the Rhipsalis baccifera, otherwise known as the Mistletoe cactus, is one of those easy types. It's full of color and certainly brings unique ...

Genie Uebelacker of Clackamas wrote weeks ago to tell me her mistletoe cactus ( Rhipsalis baccifera ) was blooming for the first time in more than 40 years. That's news. However, her email got buried.

This type of mistletoe uses cacti as a host instead of trees. In the winter, the quintral’s red flowers burst through the skin of the cactus. The flowers are made of long tubes, and look a ...

The succulent stems of your mistletoe cactus make it really easy to propagate from stem cuttings in spring and summer. Cutting a 10-15cm long section from the hanging stems is the first step.

All but one species of the Cactus plant family are native to the Western Hemisphere. Rhipsalis baccifera, also called “mistletoe cactus,” is a spineless and leafless epiphyte that’s ...

Mistletoe is commonly used as a decorative ... the time when they bloom and the leaf shapes. Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera x buckleyi) typically blooms around Christmas, hence its name.

What I suggested to him — and recommend to all plant lovers — is to grow mistletoe cactus, which comprise 35 species of Rhipsalis. Most mistletoe cactuses (wholly unrelated to mistletoe plants ...

It’s a holiday tradition. Get some mistletoe, hang it in the house or hold it above your head, find that special someone, stand together under the plant and smooch away. Seems innocent enough ...

Resembling the succulent green stems of samphire, the mistletoe cactus, Rhipsalis baccifera, are a useful trailing houseplant that can be grown from hanging pots or allowed to flow from a pot on a ...