happen to notice these buds when i walked by
gonna bloom!
close up
they're all over it
Nice, nice, nice. Looking forward to seeing the blooms.
Thanks.
Nice plant, looks like a Ripsalis of sorts, what is it?
Hi Analog, It's a Ripsalis of sorts. ha Don't know the name.
Probably Rhipsalis elliptical or a close relative/hybrid. Very hard to know for sure with all the hybrids floating around.
A pic here: http://rhipsalis.com/species/elliptica.htm
The rhipsalis.com site is a great one! Thanks for posting it.
Thanks Krowten! That is a great site. I now know what to look forward to.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Thank you!. There are several good rhipsalis sites out there. Maybe if I have some time after Thanksgiving I'll put a list together for a forum resource sticky for rhipsalis. However, one of the things I've noticed (or seemed to) is that the sites don't usually agree about a lot of things about rhipsalis and many of them don't even discuss (much) the hybrids.
I started some random rhipsalis seeds last year and am looking forward to seeing how close the resulting plants are to each other from the same parent. Then there are the differences between the juvenile and adult forms, as well as the forms for when grown in high humidity with lots of water and the form when grown under dry conditions....
Reading a Schlumbergia book, I think "Schlumbergera - Frank Supplie & Dick van der Zee." I was amazed by the hybridization mess. Plants were hybridized before they were typed as species, records lost, I suspect Rhipsalis has had the same treatment, and is in the same state. OH, BTW, my R. paradoxa, does appear to be just that in pictures I have seen on the Rhip site.
I did look at that. Can't say that I agree with you, but don't disagree that strongly either. There are several rhips with stem structure that appears identical to paradoxa, that vary in size. I have one of them, names escapes me at the moment, but I know it is on that web site.
I think we will always have the name mess, until the experts start routinely mapping genetic code of the type plants and then compare with the the stuff that is floating around. Right now, that is expensive and somewhat difficult but the technology is rapidly advancing . I think this will be cheap and routine in a decade or so.