When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images As you can tell by now, the Christmas cactus is the houseplant of the ...

The season of joy and all things glorious is upon us — and the ever-so-enchanting Christmas cactus certainly adds ... Also, if the plant starts shedding its leaf segments, it’s in distress.

A Thanksgiving cactus normally blooms between Halloween and Thanksgiving and is a different plant than the traditional Christmas cactus. If the shape of the leafy ... of its leaves, which are ...

Thorns are a type of stem while spines are a form of leaf modification. Spines provide a microclimate for cactus by shading the rounded or ribbed stems from the blazing sun of their desert habitat.

If one looks closely at the stem of the Pereskia, the fact that is a cactus is evident in its cluster of spines growing from the areoles. The genus was named after the 16th century French botanist ...