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Gardening Know How Questions & Answers - https://questions.gardeningknowhow.comMy brother in law inherited the family Christmas cactus which always had red flowers. He gave me some “leaves” and my little C cactus is healthy and growing well. It is now flowering with lovely white flowers with pink stamens. ??? Any ideas what happened?
Nora A.
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[2] https://ag.purdue.edu/btny/ppdl/Pages/POTW_old/5-31-10.html: https://ag.purdue.edu/btny/ppdl/Pages/POTW_old/5-31-10.html
[3] https://extension.psu.edu/plants/master-gardener/counties/adams/news/2012/getting-christmas-cactus-to-bloom: https://extension.psu.edu/plants/master-gardener/counties/adams/news/2012/getting-christmas-cactus-to-bloom
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1 Comment To "Christmas Cactus"
#1 Comment By Downtoearthdigs On 11/24/2017 @ 7:17 am
What most likely happened is that you got a “sport”, or a genetic mutant that arose on one part of the larger plant. The cutting you planted must have carried the mutation. Here is more about plant sports:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/info/plant-sport-mutations.htm [1]
https://ag.purdue.edu/btny/ppdl/Pages/POTW_old/5-31-10.html [2]
Some Christmas cactus plants do produce white blooms, so now it seems you have one of those: https://extension.psu.edu/plants/master-gardener/counties/adams/news/2012/getting-christmas-cactus-to-bloom [3]