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SCHLUMBERGERA ORSSICHIANA CV. 'DOLLY'

(botanical species)

photo 1/5 taken on 19/10/2022

In the 1970s and 1980s, Beatrix Orssich discovered a new Schlumbergera species in the wild

in the form of two different clones, both of which were infected by a virus.

The species discovered, Schlumbergera orssichiana, was very difficult to preserve permanently due to its infection.

It was therefore threatened with extinction.

Dolly Kölli, in the USA, made a seedling from a fruit resulting from a cross between the two infected clones.

As the seedling stops the viral infection, it produced several healthy clones, which were in turn crossed.

The long-term survival of the species was thus assured.

(For further information, see the link at the end of the Schlumbergera gallery.)

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