If you've waited all year for your Christmas cactus to develop cascading blooms only to be disappointed by a dismal display, ...

It has relatively small, scale-like bright red flowers and yellow egg-shaped fruit ... POPULATION TREND: Cactus hobbyists were thought to have eliminated the species from Florida in the late 1970s, ...

Fertilizing Christmas cactus plants is key to getting the best blooms. Christmas cactuses bloom in winter, when the days grow cool and short. While low light levels trigger flowering, fertilizing ...

Protecting this beautiful flowering succulent is crucial ... which will try to protect as few plants and animals as possible regardless of how close they are to extinction.” Clover's cactus photo by ...