My mother-in-law raised a crab claw orchid for 10 years and found that it was fake. What kind of flower is it?

Mother-in-law Wu, a flower friend, has raised a "crab claw orchid" for 10 years, with hundreds of flowers blooming every year, which is particularly beautiful! Some time ago, she sent photos of crab claw orchid blooming to flower friends. As a result, flower friends said it was fake crab claw orchid, and some flower friends said it was fake epiphyllum, which really made mother-in-law Wu sad for a while. What on earth happened? Let's have a look!

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Flower discrimination. "

-epiphytic cactus-

Mother-in-law Wu's crab claw orchid can burst every year, but its name is fake epiphyllum.

Many epiphytic cacti are native to the American rainforest, with flat stems and fewer thorns, but tend to grow aerial roots, requiring a wetter environment than terrestrial cacti.

More easily confused are crab claw orchid, false epiphyllum, fairy finger and falling flower dance, epiphyllum and arrow lotus are more likely to be confused.

Let's talk about crab claw orchid, false epiphyllum, cactus finger and falling flower dance first. In fact, they are also easy to be confused abroad. The commodity of crab claw orchid is called Thanksgiving cactus, the trade name of cactus is Christmas cactus, and the trade name of fake epiphyllum is Easter cactus. It is mainly determined according to different flowering time, and the resolution of the variety is also very poor. So, how on earth should these kinds of flowers be distinguished?

Crab claw orchid and fairy finger-

Crab claw orchid is a cactus family crab claw orchid plant, crab claw orchid stem node leaf sharp teeth, shaped like crab claw, flowering from October to February of the following year, the flower is solitary at the top of the branch, double-layer flower, slightly upwarped.

The fairy refers to the plant of the genus Cactus, whose stem node edge is smooth and wavy, flowering from mid-January to early March, and the flower of the cactus is also a double-layer flower, drooping slightly.

So crab claw orchid and fairy finger are double-layer flowers, the edge of crab claw orchid leaf has thorns, and the edge of fairy finger is smooth.

-false epiphyllum and falling flower dance-

False epiphyllum is a plant of the genus epiphyllum of the cactus family. The flowers open during the day, close at night, bloom again the next day, and usually bloom from March to May. The stem node of false epiphyllum is similar to that of fairy finger, but it is wider and thicker, and the new stem node is reddish. False epiphyllum also blossoms at the top of the stem node, but it is a single-layer flower.

The dance of falling flowers is a plant of the genus epiphyllum of the cactus family, which is closely related to the false epiphyllum. The stem nodes are usually 3-5-angled, and there are also flat or irregular edges with purplish red edges. Petals are also monolayer, and false epiphyllum flowers are very similar, it is not easy to distinguish, generally from the stem nodes to distinguish more accurately.

-Arrow lotus and epiphyllum-

The arrow lotus is a plant of the genus Linnaeus of the cactus family, which is shaped like an arrow and the flower is like a sleeping lotus, so it is called the arrow lotus. The leaves of arrow lotus are much larger than those of crab claw orchid, and the difference is obvious, similar to epiphyllum. So that the arrow lotus flat branch is relatively narrow, thick, hard, the edge is circular serrated.

The flowering time of the arrow lotus is very different from that of the epiphyllum, so that the arrow lotus usually blossoms around April, and a single flower can last 1-2 days. The flowers of the arrow lotus are colorful, with bright flowers, crimson, purple, pink, yellow and so on, and the tube is slightly shorter than the petals.

Epiphyllum is a genus of cactus plants, epiphyllum leaves are relatively wide, book, soft, the edge is wavy shallow serrated, smoother.

Epiphyllum blossoms at night around September every year, usually from 8 to 10:00 in the evening, and a single flower can only last about 8 hours. The color of epiphyllum is mainly white, and the tube is longer than the petals.

Is it clear that several kinds of flowers are put together? In fact, mother-in-law Wu need not be sad, the plant flowers are super beautiful, it doesn't matter what the name is, the key is good-looking! Each kind of flower has its own advantages and disadvantages, take good care of, each kind of will be beautiful!

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