I don't know how old the original was but I have some white Christmas Cactus plants that came from my mother's plant. She died 3 yrs ago & had this plant for as long as I can remember. I also have an angel wing begonia that came from my grandmother's plant. She died in 1988 & the cousins have had cuttings from it going ever since. Will gladly swap with you. What color african violet?
Rosemary

I just discovered this post. Did you ever find a source for the original christmas cactus? I have one that came from my grandmother's cactus. It is just now getting ready to bloom. I would be glad to share cuttings.

Thanks Loretta

Hello, I have been looking for some of the original 'Christmas Cactus's'....for some reason they are calling all the newer ones "Christmas Cactus"...Well !!!! they are NOT Christmas Cactus, they are Thanksgiving cactus.....the original does NOT have 'teeth' on the leaves, they have scallops! not teeth.....I have one of the Original ones, & it is RED (with Scallops) I do have an Extra one ....if you are interested. Where to you live???Patt

I lost my great Grandma's 70 year old catus this year when I was sent east for two weeks to work on a store and the furnace and pipes froze. I did shut the water off at the well thanks to past issues. Can't say no in these times. I went to a garden center looking for help in finding one when I could not find one on line and they did everything they could to tell me not to look for the old ones. Does anyone have a link to get one or want to sell one to me?
Thanks
Michael J.

Anyone still looking for starts?

You can purchase Christmas cactus from Jackson Perkins. Pretty expensive though..

I have some that I would be willing to trade as well. My flower color is a darkish pink/ Magenta. I inherited it from my great grandmother when she went to a nursing home, she got it sometime back in the 50's or 60's.

I realize this is an old thread, but I would love to get a small piece of any old Christmas cactus anyone is willing to share. I'm not on GW much anymore, I'm mostly on other sites or Facebook now because I'm usually on my phone & this site is hard to navigate on my phone. You can contact me at Kathy5472265@yahoo.com if anyone is interested. I can do postage or trade, depending on what you are looking for.

I just sigup for this site and this is old thread but have fingers crossed... its hard to find old christmas cactus its shot in the dark. my x killed my plants and am so sad been searching but if anyone has extra they could spare be appreciated. here is my email ptshiel@aol.com thanks so much

Don't know if any of you are still following this thread or not. I do see someone from August 2016 so here goes... I run a group on Facebook called Holiday Cactus Lovers. We are over 2600 members strong. We have Thanksgiving (pointy edges) and Christmas Cactus (smooth/scalloped edges). Our members are willing to share and trade. True CC is harder to find, but some of us have been lucky enough to have an heirloom CC passed down. Come see us- join the fun and poke around. We are all about learning and sharing. https://www.facebook.com/groups/824177634321374/1208864665852667/?notif_t=like&notif_id=1476367658142378

Hi Kathy - Happy to find you. I have a Christmas Cactus that's over 100 years old. I've had it for 50. The woman who gave it to me said it was 50 when she left it with me. It's a double pink. Just starting to bud now. I'll try to get onto Facebook w/you.

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