After last year's blooms, one of my Christmas cactuses developed an odd growth. It appears to be a seed pod.
I have been growing Christmas cactuses since 1961, and I have never seen anything like this before. Has anyone else seen it? Any ideas what's the plant is doing?
Here's a picture of the mysterious growth. (The remains of the flower are still attached, although all of the others have fallen off.)
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's a picture of the same plant, or another from the same original stock, taken last November.
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picture is about 1.3 MB.)