Purple Christmas Cactus

Another entry in this weeks theme macro, another of my wife's cactus just flowering at the right time, BoB

[Sue]

Another stunning macro Peter - clear and colourful

[Lou Ann]

This is beautiful! I’ve not seen Christmas cactus that color, it is lovely. Like the closeup, everything is so clear.

[Hazel]

A beautiful colour - you know the poem!!

[Peter]

@suesouthwood Thank you for your wonderful comments Sue, shot taken with the plant and camera sat on the kitchen worktop and using manual focus and settings:)

[Peter]

@louannwarren Thank you Lou Ann for both your lovely comment and fav they are appreciate, My wife has both white flowering and purple flowering ones, if memory serves me right you have posted a red flowering one some time back:)

[Peter]

@quietpurplehaze Thank you Hazel thought this colour would get your attention it is pretty when its in full flower, and yes I can recall some of the poem funny how some lines stick in the mind:)

[Lou Ann]

@pcoulson Yes, a kind of salmon red color.

[photogq]

beautiful look at these lovely flowers.

[Babs]

Beautiful close up and I love the colour.

[Peter]

@gq Thank you so much for finding the time to comment its appreciated:)

[Peter]

@onewing Thank you Babs this is the only one fully out but we have lots more on the way:)

[Henri Russell]

So pretty. I've never seen this color of blooms.

[Sheralee S]

We've always called these zygo cactus. This one is a very pretty colour.

[Peter]

@bella_ss Thank you for your lovely comment Sheralee, yes its one and the same to give it its proper name (as per the label in the pot) its AKA, Christmas cactus Zygocactus Truncatus schlumbergera :)

[Peter]

@henrir Thank you so much Henri, my wife has both purple and also white she is going to get a red one when she get's around to it:)