{"id":26364,"date":"2016-09-17T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T09:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-grow-mistletoe-cactus-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2016-09-17T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T10:09:58","slug":"how-to-grow-mistletoe-cactus-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-grow-mistletoe-cactus-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"How to grow mistletoe cactus | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt\u2019s the perfect house cactus for the bathroom, says Alys FowlerThere is a rather lovely, but I feel rather\u00a0unlikely, tale about the mistletoe cactus, Rhipsalis baccifera, and a homesick sailor. The mistletoe cactus\u00a0is the only cactus that grows outside the New World. As well as America (North and South), you\u2019ll encounter it in Sri Lanka and Africa,\u00a0including the\u00a0island of Madagascar. How it\u00a0got from one side of the Atlantic to the other has long puzzled those who care.One suggestion is that way back when Gondwana was the supercontinent and Africa and America were one, the mistletoe cactus was already in existence. When Africa and America split, the cactus chose a home on both sides: this is known as vicariance. Or perhaps dispersal is responsible \u2013 that is, the plant, rather than the Earth, moved. Birds eat the fruit of rhipsalis (the baccifera part of the Latin name refers to its lovely white berries), so they could be the reason it\u2019s found in both places, though that\u2019s a long flight for a bird, and no one has found a likely feathered candidate. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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