Pereskia Species, Pray-For-Us, Rose Cactus

The foliage is just as impressive as its flowers, which are pink. Very well-suited for mild Southern California winters. And those rare o...Read Moreccasions when we do get frost, the leaves remain unscathed. The plant flowers in the spring time, so be sure to fertilize on the last week of February, preferably with fish-based fertilizer (Salmon or Mackerel leftovers). Miracle Grow liquid fertilizer works well. If you have no other fertilizer, use kitchen scraps, like egg shells, leftover meat or fish, and bury it at least an inch below the soil surface.

I grow this plant in pots. I have a pink one and a purple one. They love to bloom and grow. The purple makes red fruits and the pink one ...Read Moremakes green fruits.

I have grown this plant for several years now. I got an 'innocent' cutting from a local cactus nut, about 2' long that was just a spiny p...Read Moreiece of wood. Two years later the entire back of my planter was a massibe, spiny green wall of cactus over 10' tall and nearly as wide! This is a FAST-growing species! I have had to cut it back at least once a year. And let me tell you, this is a nasty plant to have to deal with. It has incredibly sharp, thin, long spines that penetrate any glove I have tried. And the spines radiate it all directions making it nearly impossible to handle (secret is grabbing it by the branch tips where the flowers and fruits are- no spines, yet). I have since grown my own cuttings off this and they are amazingly easy. Anyone want one? Flowers are an attractive pale pink and then they morph into weird, small knobby apple-like fruits that fall off all over the place (haven't tried to eat one yet). Leafless in winter

Other common names are "Guamacho Morado, Quiabento & Sabonete.

More synonyms of this plant are Pereskia grandifolia subsp....Read More grandifolia & Pereskia grandifolia var. grandifolia.