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{PG,1 A new and distinct hybrid plant variety of the Cactaceae family is related to the {i Zygocactus truncatus {l {1 Kris Kringle{2 {0 and {i Zygocactus truncatus {l {1 Lavender Doll{2 {0 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 {1 Kris Kringle{2 {0 and {1 Lavender Doll{2 {0 varieties, a resistance to flower bud abscission that is comparable to those of the {1 Kris Kringle{2 {0 and {1 Lavender Doll{2 {0 varieties and a flower that blooms earlier than that of the {1 Lavender Doll{2 {0 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 dominated by purplish red and/or reddish purple hues and which include a sepaloid series of free tepals with inner whorl members having basal areas that in color are dominated by a purplish pink hue, a perianth tube forming series of basally united tepals that form a translucent white vestigal carina at the throat of the tube, and a series of tube laminating tepals which usually number from 5 to 7 in the bloom.
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