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Back    Rhipsalis lumbricoides. The Rhipsalises are rainforest cacti and cannot tolerate long dry periods. Their shoots are slender and not very succulent. The tiny white dots are stomata. The scale-like leaves each subtend an axillary bud, but in this species, the bud does not produce spines.