‘Gaertneri Giant’

Name	WSynonym of	Register number	Registrant
'Gaertneri Giant'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-099

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
California Epi Center	USA

Name year	Type	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
pod parent unknown	pollen parent unknown		red

Color temperature sensitive	Flower length	Flower width	Petal form

Recurved	Stamen color	Style color	Fruit color

Fruit edged	Flower description	Phylloclades length	Phylloclades width
	large crimson-red flowered cultivar and considered one of the best growers and bloomers of all Easter Cacti. Flower diameter 7–8 cm. Often blooms again in late summer. Flowers are very much like R. gaertneri.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Illustratetion in: T. Hashizume’s Epiphyllums & Other Related Genera Pt. II: 112, 1985. California Epi Center Catalog, 87/88: 32. Rainbow Gardens Catalog, 95/96: 20 & earlier catalogs. Meier 1995: 19	segments are very much like R. gaertneri. Most likely the same as 'Scarlet(t) O'Hara', 'Crimson Giant' and just 'Giant'. All these plants so closely resemble genuine R. gaertneri that they may be a selection of the species with slightly larger flowers sold under catchy names. (Eckhard Meier).