THE TRUE CHRISTMAS CACTUS #7: GRANDMA RUSSELL

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Christmas Cactus cv 'Grandma Russell' (Schlumbergera x buckleyi).

The Christmas Cacti in various colors that we see everywhere during the holidays are NOT really the true Christmas Cacti. These are clones selected for their colors and growth habits and are given various cultivar names. These commercial varieties in an wide array of spectacular colors have been selected and/or induced by chemical and biological manipulation.

The true or heirloom Christmas Cactus had descended from one of William Buckley's hybrid Schlumbergera russelliana X Schlumbergera truncata plants in the 1840s in the Rollisson Nurseries of England and are commonly known now as Schlumbergera x buckleyi.

There are possibly two, perhaps three slightly different surviving clones (vegetative descendents e.g. by layering or cuttings) of three hybrids of this cross, named

Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Buckleyi',
Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Rollissonii'
Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Snowii'

'Buckleyi' = White tube shading to magenta petals
'Rollissonii' = Flowers magenta in color
'Snowii' = Smaller magenta flowers and stem segments.

The true Christmas Cactus shown here, lovingly called Grandma Russell, had been propagated from cuttings as it got handed down over few generations in a course of at least 100 years or more from the grand matriarch of the Russell Family of Merritt Island, Florida, USA.
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Holiday Cactus: Christmas Cactus
Schlumbergera x buckleyi cv 'Grandma Russell'
Family Cactaceae
The Russell Family, Merritt Island, Florida, USA.
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For more;
cactus.biology.dal.ca/paulS/christmas/christmas.html
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Taken in: United States / Florida / Rockledge (show map)

Taken on: February 16, 2014

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Camera: Sony DSC-HX200V, f/8.0, 1/160 sec, 12.9mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony DSC-HX200V
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	12.9mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	ACD Systems Digital Imaging
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