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Cactus Growing Root-Like Strings?

fauxface
9 years ago

As seen in the picture attached one of my cacti is growing these weird finger like projections. This particular cacti was originally the type with a flower like bulb on top but the bulb began to turn brown and the cactus started to rot from the top down. I read online that there wasn't anything I could do but as a student in Agriculture and Life Sciences I took my basic biology knowledge and used sterile tools to cut the infection off - thinking that maybe if I just it off it would save the plant. Knowing that without an apical meristem the plan would never grow up but with lateral meristems still intact it would grow arms. Which is exactly what it did, it grew an arm! I was beyond surprised and excited but now I'm just a big confused as too what these root like noodles coming off of it are. Any help would be much appreciated.

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