Rhipsalis capilliformis

• 26 Aug, 2012
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How can this mass of green wiry stems, just right for the hair of 'The Green Man' be a cactus or even related to one, but it is just that with lots of fine silvery bell-like flowers in the spring; a trailing epiphytic cactus from the American jungles. Its fine stems none much greater than a millimetre in diameter march inexorably across the windowsill from its pot-lair and only frequent clipping keeps it in check. Mankind beware, if this little hairy beast gets loose in the tropics it will engulf us all.