botanicaladventures:

schlumbergera russelliana started blooming. one early bird, but many more small buds. 

I was gonna suggest that it’s more likely Schlumbergera x buckleyi, but just realized that while they are different plants they look virtually identical to each other (explanation being that S. russelliana is a parent to S. x buckleyi, it’s other parent being S. truncata, however it takes more after it’s S. russelliana parent for most visual charactersitics).

This really makes me wonder how one can tell the two apart, or it it would require genetic testing to even be able to be sure if it was one or the other.