31/10/2023
🌸 Garden Gems🌸
Selenecereus Anthonyanus:
🐟🦴 🌵Fish Bone Cactus
This fascinating cactus variety has multiple common names that include Fishbone cactus, Ric rac cactus, and zig-zag cactus.
Apart from these common names, it is also known as orchid cactus, which makes more sense when the fishbone cactus blooms and produces beautiful white to purple and pink orchid flowers.
Selenicereus anthonyanus fishbone cactus hails from Mexico’s tropical rainforests and loves humid & moist environments. This epiphytic cactus is an easy-to-care species.
⚡️The rate of fishbone cactus growth is fast. As it’s an epiphytic succulent, it grows on a host plant that is usually trees; they can lock their roots into the crannies and nooks of branches.
🌸They flower from late spring to early summer. The flowering lasts only for a single day where they open in the later evening & afternoon.
💧Unlike desert cactus species, fishbone cactus appreciates humid & moist surroundings.
What a beautiful find on a rainy nursery day…
📌 Inkalane will be closed today due to the lovely rains, and a muddy nursery floor… Bless the rains in Africa🌧️💧
