Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid plant variety of the Cactaceae family is related to the Zygocactus truncatus `Kris Kringle` and Zygocactus truncatus `Lavender Doll` varieties and is principally distinguished by a growth habit which combines characteristics that include a natural tendency to branch without inducement by pruning during the growth period, a fast growth rate with resistances to nutrient deficiencies and fungus type diseases that are comparable to those of the `Kris Kringle` and `Lavender Doll` varieties, a resistance to flower bud abscission that is comparable to those of the `Kris Kringle` and `Lavender Doll` varieties and a flower that blooms earlier than that of the `Lavender Doll` variety and has a bloom life of from about 6 to about 9 days, a pistil with a style that is translucent white at its proximal end and in color at its distal end is dominated by purplish red and/or reddish purple hues and with a stigma which is translucent white, and tepals which have marginal blade areas that in color are

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family provides specimens that combine an upright, compact growth habit with a faster growth rate and a greater natural tendency to branch and produce a larger number of phylloclades without inducement by pruning than the `Lavender Doll` and `Kris Kringle` varieties of the truncatus species. The new variety provides specimens with phylloclades which are usually smaller in width and length dimensions than those of the `Lavender Doll` variety. The specimens of the new plant variety have a substantially greater resistance to flower bud abscission than exhibited by the `Lavender Doll` and `Kris Kringle` varieties and also have resistances to nutrient deficiencies and fungus type diseases that are comparable to such varieties. The bloom usually occurs later in the growing season than that of the `Lavender Doll` variety and it has a life of from about 6 to about 9 days.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of the Cactaceae family is related to the Zygocactus truncatus `Kris Kringle` and Zygocactus truncatus `Lavender Doll` varieties provides specimens with a natural tendency to branch during the growth period preceding blooming without the need for inducement by pruning. The specimens have a fast growth rate which provides an upright, compact appearance and wherein the phylloclades have generally shorter midribs than those of the `Lavender Doll` variety and generally thicker teeth than those of the `Kris Kringle` variety. The specimens exhibit resistances to nutrient deficiencies, fungus type diseases and flower bud abscission that are comparable to those of the `Kris Kringle` and `Lavender Doll` variety and the flower appears later than that of the `Kris Kringle` variety and has a bloom life of from about 6 to about 9 days. The flower hues are red, pink, purplish red and/or yellowish pink.

Abstract: A new plant variety is distinguishable from specimens of the Hoya Carnosa Krinkle 8 variety by a predominance of variegated leaf blades which at the upper epidermal side have a solid green center field and an albino marginal area which is frequently discontinuous, and leaf petioles which in color are dominated by greenish yellow, yellow green, purplish pink, reddish purple, purplish red, pink and/or red hues.

Abstract: A new plant variety of the Cactaceae family is related to the `Kris Kringle` and `Lavender Doll` varieties of the truncatus species and Zygocactus genus and has a growth habit providing specimens that combine the following principal distinguishing characteristics: a fast growth rate as comparable to that of the `Kris Kringle` variety; a natural tendency to branch without inducement by pruning during the growth period prior to blooming and which is comparable to that of the `Kris Kringle` variety; resistances to nutrient deficiencies and fungus type diseases that are comparable to those of the `Kris Kringle` and `Lavender Doll` varieties; a substantially greater resistance to flower bud abscission in comparison to the `Lavender Doll` and `Kris Kringle` varieites; and a bloom with less recurve in the tube forming tepals in comparison to the `Kris Kringle` variety and which commonly occurs from about 2 to 4 weeks earlier than blooms of the `Peach Parfait` variety, and having a bloom life of from about 6 to 9 day

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family has a generally "purplish" colored bloom with the color in the marginal blade areas of the perianth tube laminating and forming series of tepals being dominated by a reddish purple hue. The tepals of the bloom have generally greater width dimensions in comparison to correspondingly located tepals of the `Lavender Doll` variety and those of the perianth tube laminating series emerge generally closer to the distal end of the perianth tube than those of the `Lavender Doll` variety so that the bloom in comparison is fuller and with a more compact tepal arrangement. The life of the bloom ranges from about 6 to about 9 days. The stems in comparison to the `Lavender Doll` variety, have fewer branches, generally longer phylloclades and somewhat thicker wings.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Piperaceae Family is related to the Peperomia rufescens variety known commercially as `Red Ripple` and is principally distinguished from this variety and other known related varieties by a growth habit which provides leaf blades that at the upper epidermal side have a basic field which in color is dominated by yellow green and/or greenish yellow hues, which is discontinuous and interrupted along the veins by color that varies in lateral penetration from the vein and is dominated by reddish orange, reddish brown, brown, brownish orange, yellowish brown and/or orange yellow hues, and which is commonly endowed between the primary veins with elongated streaks of color weaknesses that appear as overtones of light greenish gray, grayish white and/or yellowish gray colors; the leaf blades at the lower epidermal side having a basic field which in color is dominated by a yellow green hue, and which is discontinuous and interrupted along the veins by color that varies in lateral

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" has an erect growth habit and blooms with perianth tube forming tepals that have an axially oriented crease that extends proximally from the distal ends of the tepals and perianth tube laminating and forming tepals that in the marginal blade areas are dominated with colors that have a yellow hue.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family which is sterile and in comparison to the `Christmas Magic` variety is principally distinguished by a growth habit which includes a greater natural tendency for branching without the need for pruning, a greater resistance to nutrient deficiencies, a greater resistance to stem breakage, a slightly lesser resistance to bud abscission, a habit of producing more blooms on specimens of comparable age at an earlier date in the blooming season and with a slightly longer bloom life, and a habit of producing blooms with a fuller bodied appearance and enhanced color.

Abstract: A new sterile plant variety has many of the characteristics of the `Lavender Doll` variety and in comparison to this variety has about the same growth rate, tendency to branch when pruned, and specimen size at maturity. It has a greater natural tendency to branch without pruning, a much greater tendency to form more compact specimens with a more upright and erect posture at maturity and the phylloclades are usually shorter in length and narrower in width. The new variety has a greater resistance to nutrient deficiencies and known problem diseases of the related varieties and it is more resistant to bud abscission and provided with a greater tendency to form multiple buds on the branch tips. It has a habit of producing more blooms with about the same bloom life as that of the `Lavender Doll` variety but at a noticeably earlier date in the blooming season.

Abstract: A new plant variety which is sterile and produces a light or pastel salmon colored bloom, in comparison to the `Christmas Cheer` variety has a faster growth rate, larger specimens at comparable stages of maturity and a more upright posture and compact appearance as evidenced by more erect stems and heavier branching with or without inducement by pruning. The new variety has a greater resistance to stem breakage and longer and wider phylloclades when the `Christmas Cheer` variety. It also has a greater resistance to nutrient deficiencies and known problem diseases of the related varieties. It has a greater tendency for multiple bud formations and a greater resistance to bud abscission than the `Christmas Cheer` variety. It also has a habit or producing more blooms that have longer tepals than those of the `Christmas Cheer` variety and a longer bloom life.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit similar to that of the "Gold Charm" variety but has buds and sterile flowers with somewhat different color characteristics from those of the "Gold Charm" variety.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that the "Twilight Tangerine" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,200) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with longer and thicker midribs and thicker wings and teeth, a bloom with more intense salmon coloration, and flowers which are sterile and have a sepaloid series of tepals with a smaller number of tepals and shorter tepal lengths and smaller tepal widths, a tube laminating series of tepals with a larger number of tepals and greater tepal widths, a tube forming series of tepals with greater widths, and a longer perianth tube.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that of the "Kris Kringle" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,688) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with thicker and wider wings and with thicker and longer teeth, and sterile flowers with shorter perianth tubes and tube laminating and forming tepals that have generally wider blades.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that of the "Alba" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,574) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with thicker and wider wings and thicker teeth, and flowers which are sterile and have a larger number of tube laminating tepals that are also shorter in length and of a greater width and tube forming tepals which are also shorter in length and of a greater width.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that the "Gold Charm" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,104) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with thicker and wider wings and thicker teeth in greater numbers per phyllocalde, and flowers which are sterile and have shorter tube laminating tepals, a perianth tube with longer major and minor elliptical axis, shorter tube attached stamens and larger diameter and shorter length styles.