Rhipsalis Species, Mistletoe Cactus

Have had this growing on my bathroom shelf (East-facing window, zone: Rome, Italy) for about five years. Indestructable. Constant gree...Read Moren colour. Never even changed the soil. Laid a few strands onto soil in another pot and watered occasionally for the winter. Now have a robust new plant. Its "tubes" choose to either become roots (if near rhe soil) or extend to form new tubes. This is unusual in plants, I think. (?)

This is a pretty little plant, and and until a few years ago a mystery to me. I thought it was grass -- a weed -- when it first popped u...Read Morep in my yard on Summerland Key in the Florida Keys. I identified it after a few years of diligent pulling and decided to let it be. Soon I found it everywhere in my tiny yard -- under the faucet, around the bougainvilleas, next to the traveler tree and dwarf schefflera. Under the stairs! I have many clumps of it now. They seem to spread to other places and the original clumps are spreading in place. Very pretty, evergreen, apparently sturdy (has survived hurricanes) and always, within the limitations of its shape and droopiness, green and fresh looking. Never anything brown or ugly. Quite a plant. It is so soft it's hard to believe it's a cactus.

I saw this plant at a nusery and i asked the lady how much it was,
it was just a little one, it only had a few stems, and when she...Read More said
how much it was she said 20 bucks!

I wanted it sooooo bad!

But in the end i bought a little hen and chicken.

Why does this plant cost so much?

Here are more synonyms of this plant, some of which at some time in the future 'might' become a variety, cultivar, subspecies or forma of...Read More the species: Rhipsalis bartlettii, Rhipsalis caripensis, Rhipsalis cassutha, Rhipsalis minutiflora, Rhipsalis neocassutha, Rhipsalis parasitica, Rhipsalis parasitica, Cactus pendulus, Rhipsalis suarensis, Rhipsalis hookeriana, Rhipsalis hylaea, Rhipsalis madagascariensis, Rhipsalis pilosa, Rhipsalis undulata, Rhipsalis suareziana, Rhipsalis heptagona, Rhipsalis cassuthopsis, Cassytha filiformis, Rhipsalis cassytha, Rhipsalis cassythoides, Rhipsalis dichotoma, Cactus caripensis & Rhipsalis quellebambensis.