Are the flowers on the cactus bought from wal mart,etc. real or just put on there to make them look pretty
2007-01-09 02:29:38 · 14 answers · asked by Elizabeth v 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Cactus does produce flowers but those should be obvious to you. If you are talking about that stuff that feels like straw and is super bright yellow, bright red, or hot pink, it's just glued on. Whenever I buy a new cactus, if it has this thing on it, I just pull it off. The cactus that I do have that produce flowers, you can see the flower buds and notice that they are growing until they bloom. When they are done blooming the flower dries up and falls off. Hope this helps!!! :)
2007-01-09 18:11:40 · answer #1 · answered by Valkyrie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you seriously asking this question? Cactus can grow very pretty flowers. Look online! How could a store put a flower on a cactus? You could look to see if it's really growing from the cactus. Just don't actually touch the cactus. They tend to hurt.
2007-01-09 10:33:23 · answer #2 · answered by Beth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the person working in the garden department at Walmart. Touch the flower (avoid the spikes). Find the cactus name and go home and look it up online......if they both look the same I'd say it was a real flower. Besides if you acutally bought one and the bloom stayed on the plant say for 2 years....then that one could be a fake.
2007-01-10 01:39:55 · answer #3 · answered by anemonecanadensis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your specific cactus...I'm sure WalMart does sell artificial plants, however, many species of Cactus do grow flowers, and I doubt they would grow a real cactus and stick fake flowers on it.
If the cactus is real, and the flowers are stuck on there, I think it's safe to assume they're real too.
2007-01-09 10:34:00 · answer #4 · answered by Kat Hopkins 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cactus plants do have flowers on them. The ones in walmart, may or may not be the real cactus flowers.
I have many fond memories of cactus in bloom.
2007-01-09 10:33:34 · answer #5 · answered by c.s. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This time of year, I'm wondering if your referring to "Christmas" cactus. Those are definetely real as you can tell when you bring them home and they start to wilt. With others, the spiney kind, they are often real also but may be glued on silk or dry. I like the answer from the horticulture student. I've not done any grafting myself, but when I worked in a retail-wholesale greenhouse operation we would get them in like that sometimes.
The fake ones last a long time, and the real ones don't. One of the things I love about the spiney cacti is if you don't rot them with over-watering, they can be dead for 6 months before you can tell they are dead. What I hate about them is they can be dead when you buy them and don't know for 6 months.
Usually, they don't cost much and you get your money's worth out of them either way.
2007-01-09 12:16:30 · answer #6 · answered by character 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a Christmas cactus given to me for Christmas and all the ones I saw were real flowers. However the best way to tell is if they wither and die they are real.
2007-01-09 12:25:08 · answer #7 · answered by Cherish B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cactus do grow flowers.You can actually cut a cactus place another on top of it and it will grow. I've done it many times as a student of horticulture.
2007-01-09 10:36:45 · answer #8 · answered by john h 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
lots of cactus flower and look good. Sometimes people will attached a spurious flower to a cactus to enhance its look. Check it out, if it is stuck on real good or pinned, break one off and if it shows stalk, then it is real
2007-01-09 10:35:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it depends. sometimes there is a flower glued on. cactus do produce flowers, though. so look before you buy if you want the real thing.
2007-01-09 10:35:51 · answer #10 · answered by sheh8shim4ever 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋