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Hatiora salicornoides

Flowering Plants

Hatiora salicornoides, also called the bottle cactus, dancing bones, drunkard's dream, or spice cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family. A member of the tribe Rhipsalideae, it is native to eastern Brazil, where it often grows as an epiphyte on other plants, and is also cultivated ornamentally elsewhere. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 2
Scientific Name
Hatiora salicornoides 2
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Appendix II 3
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Cactaceae, Taxa
Source Hatiora salicornoides (Wikidata)
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Found In

Bahia

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Minas Gerais

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Parana

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Rio de Janeiro

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Santa Catarina

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Sources
1. Hatiora salicornoides (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    A member of the tribe Rhipsalideae, it often grows as an epiphyte, natively in eastern Brazil and ornamentally elsewhere.
  • Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to
    Hatiora salicornoides, also spelt Hatiora salicornioides, the bottle cactus, dancing-bones, drunkard's-dream, or spice cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family.
  • Infobox: status
    LC
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2. Hatiora salicornoides (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q135188 (P225 taxon name)
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
  • Child Taxon Of: Cactaceae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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3. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Hatiora
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 13214
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 13214
"appendix":"II","change_type":"+","effective_at":"2026-03-05","annotation":"[FAMILY listing Cactaceae spp.] Except the species included in Appendix I and except Pereskia spp., Pereskiopsis spp. and Quiabentia spp.\r\nArtificially propagated specimens of the following hybrids and/or cultivars are not subject to the provisions of the Convention: Hatiora x graeseri; Schlumbergera x buckleyi; Schlumbergera russelliana x Schlumbergera truncata;
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Plant (Wikipedia)
Lead, whole group is photosynthetic
Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic
They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.
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