botanicaladventures:

2017 12 08, these are the schlumbergera at my parents…the first one has kind of symmetrical flowers…the second one is asymmetric. i will really give up on giving and id… i wanted to make better pictures but did not want to move the plants to prevent bud drop. the next time i post about christmas cacti will be when the one i have will go into full bloom…one or two weeks. 

Schlumbergera truncata blood runs through its veins! I actually have a pink flowered one that looks almost the same. The key is not to ID through flowers that are just opening or wilting/fading, but rather ones in the middle of their full floral prime, showing every petal curl they naturally possess. I think I vaguely remember someone saying that if the flower looks like a shrimp then it’s a S. truncata (that or that was my own observations of seeing various S. truncata cultivars, icr <A<).