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These cacti live beneath the cover of rain forest trees in honduras Guatemala, and their flower colors are typically reds with some magenta tones. Disocactus plants grow in an epiphyte form, and their trailing stems work very nicely in a hanging basket format. They acclimate themselves well to the low light conditions of house plant life, because their natural habitat is primarily in the shade of other plants. They can be treated like most broad leaf house plants and watered frequently, but it is still better to provide cooler dryer conditions for them in the winter months. In the cool season they can receive less sun light, less water and be placed in a location with air temperatures around 50 °F, which will encourage them to bloom in the following spring. When these plants begin to set buds they need to remain in the same location until they bloom, and moving them will cause the plants to drop their buds. Like most plants they like to be misted with water, and the Disocactus generic is one of the few cactus varieties that easily grow as house plants.
Epiphyte forms of cacti, like Disocactus are sometimes mistakes as a sort of broad leaf cactus plant. They are actually without leaves and are basically long flimsy two ribbed cactus stems growing ones segment at a time. Small segments of these plants may have three of four ribs, and as they grow they narrow themselves down to two ribs growing opposite each other on the stem. Disocactus plants very seldom have spines, and when they occur they are very difficult to see. These plants are leafless, and technically the spines would be their leaves, so even thought they look like leafy cactus plants they are really only stems.
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