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Old 01-11-2009, 08:11 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
David in Normandy[_8_] David in Normandy[_8_] is offline
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Martin Brown wrote:

But they are fairly promiscuous and a lot of the ones sold these days
are hybrids of Schlumbergia (Zygocactus) truncatus. You can get a wide
range of colours although yellow and white are rarer and will not come
true if the house is too cold - the pink will still be expressed.


Ah!!! We had one with pink flowers in Winter, but strangely had white
flowers this Summer - this confused both me and the Mrs. I thought
perhaps she had swapped it for another one on the windowsill. So they
CAN change flower colour then?

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