My new favorite plant from Mom – one year later

Post author By Sue Burke
Post date May 10, 2020
6 Comments on My new favorite plant from Mom – one year later

Last year on Mother’s Day, I blogged about my new favorite plant, a Rhipsalis creuscula or coral cactus.

In April 2019, my brother sent me some cuttings from his plant by mail. His plant came from cuttings our mother gave him almost thirty years ago from her own plant. She died in 1994. That means this is my mother’s coral cactus!

As you can see from last year’s photo, the cuttings arrived a little travel-weary, but it’s a survivor, and the plant has become a beautiful way to remember Mom.

By Sue Burke

Sue Burke’s most recent science fiction novel is Usurpation, the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Semiosis and Interference. She began writing professionally as a teenager, working for newspapers and magazines as a reporter and editor, and began writing fiction in 1995. She has published more than 40 short stories, along with essays, poetry, and translations from Spanish into English of short stories, novels, poetry, and historical works. Find out more at https://sueburke.site/

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6 replies on “My new favorite plant from Mom – one year later”

Does the plant have a name? 😀

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The plant is called Mom’s plant. Only a few of my plants have names, and the rest have descriptors: Steve One, Steve Two (named by my sister-in-law), Pink Lady, Son of Steve Two, the Other Son of Steve Two, Those Coleus I Was Going To Give Away At the Rummage Sale and Then We All Had To Stay Home and They’re Getting Too Big For Their Pots Now, the Basil We Don’t Eat As Fast As It Grows, the Baby Bonsai, the Sickly Oxalis, the Healthy Oxalis, the Purple Oxalis, the Red Coleus….

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