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Category: House and Home Plants | Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:30 pm

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Last week I found a good buy on small bonsai planters. Used two, but that was the previous post.
Anyway I was left with the third planter. What to get to plant in it???

I stumbled across the most incredible little cactus. "Thank you big box store." It is called a Mouse Tail Cactus, Rhipsalis baccifera horrida. Rhipsalis is a genus of epiphytic cacti. This particular cactus is from South America living in the trees of the rain forest.


Mouse Tail Cactus ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )


( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Tropical warm places in the winter hold my imagination so it had to come home with me. The new little cactus likes more moisture than most cacti and higher humidity. Sounded like a match for my crazed windowsill garden of sunloving succulents.

I am hoping that it will stay small. There is obviously a lot of variation in this genus from looking on the Web.

I grew another rainforest/tropical cactus and loved it for a while. Then the previous one cactus kept getting too big. *sigh* I hate it when a plant tries to take over my living space. Then they have to be put out for adoption and that is always a very wrenching experience for me.

Hopefully unlike the other cactus I grew this new one will stay small.


( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )


saddly gone and not really missed..bad plant ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

I have two other succulents that are well loved and well behaved. Their size is right and they hang nicely in the living room windows.


( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )


( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Hopefully this new cactus will keep its petite size and manner and be with me for many years. Small is good. Otherwise there is always putting them out for adoption...





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Rosewood wrote on Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:20 pm:

I have one of these. They are amazing. Mine are very old and have barked up a bit.

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