--- title: "Warning about fake flowers ! So - I had this cactus with these cute…" description: "Warning about fake flowers ! So - I had this cactus with these cute flowers on, but I wasnt sure if they were real or fake. I asked this circle and got mostly…" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/vOLjreBcQ-OpqrHIhVSc4w/6508d66733717bb5b4261b5d?language=ko" community: "The Cactus & Succulent Circle" author: "Charlie" published: "2023-09-18T22:59:51.782Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/76Kxc8pGr7ICtAqeJMMeZwQQVZ9lHixWUi8D8FJJpG0/93c7a223b2d5462299ea020a58b4059d.webp?size=large" --- [커뮤니티](https://getplanta.com/community.md?language=ko) / [The Cactus \& Succulent Circle](https://getplanta.com/community/vOLjreBcQ-OpqrHIhVSc4w.md?language=ko) # Warning about fake flowers ! So - I had this cactus with these cute… _Charlie님이 2023-09-18에 게시함_ Warning about fake flowers ! So - I had this cactus with these cute flowers on, but I wasnt sure if they were real or fake. I asked this circle and got mostly people saying they looked fake. They didn't look like right kind of flower, they weren't growing out of the areolas, etc. but I was still very confused because I was SURE they werent glued on, I could see they were "growing out" Today I decided to just pluck one out with tweezers and have a look. To my shock the flowers were all stuck inside of my cactus with long sticks. Not glued on. I'm not sure if theyre real flowers from some other plant with toothpick kind of sticks or just fake flowers altogether. But I'm pretty sure this is not how cactuses grow flower. It's left huge deep holes all over my cactus:( Has anyone ever seen this before? No one seemed to know about this kind of thing when I was figuring out if they were fake flowers or not. I'm in England, so I don't know if this is just something they do in the UK? I thought I'd share to warn anyone else who has these type of "flowers" and of course, if I have somehow managed to get this wrong. ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/76Kxc8pGr7ICtAqeJMMeZwQQVZ9lHixWUi8D8FJJpG0/93c7a223b2d5462299ea020a58b4059d.webp?size=large) ## 4개의 댓글 ### Fern \<3님이 2023-09-18에 댓글을 남겼어요. I bought a very, very pretty moon cactus with a large, orange flower on it. For a long, long time the flower stayed the same. That is when I started googling. It was extremely hard to believe the flower was fake. It was put in the cactus with a long stick as well. I am in the us. I absolutely hate stores that do this!!! It died from a “puncture wound” a week or two later. 😭 #### Charlie님이 2023-09-19에 답변했습니다. Oh no!!! I really hope my cactus survives the wound :( #### Pliny the Elder님이 2023-09-22에 답변했습니다. It will scab over. Don’t worry, it’ll survive. Sometimes a damaged cactus will even start to put out pups or grow new arms to compensate for the damage. ### John G Amero님이 2023-09-21에 댓글을 남겼어요. Hi there, I’m not a PPS MD, a Plastic Plant Surgeon ☺️ so I cannot speak about any harm caused by the piercings. I’m taking a guess, to start you are feeling deceived. No where was there information by the seller that the succulent had flower piercings. It was a deceptive sale by not informing buyers of that info. Many plants are sold with bling. I’m not a fan of it myself. On the brighter side of succulent flowering…after 50+ years on this planet I finally have a succulent that produced this yellow party favor right in front of my daily eyes! And I have another on the way! ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/6gxEM_j_mJgdysj-2z4vmXECXcvvzQ8T9LpBISEIrd4/c236e9dc66894a97b3a6cf303c39fe01.webp?size=large) --- _Planta 커뮤니티 (https://getplanta.com). 누구나 읽을 수 있습니다. 게시물을 올리고, 댓글을 달고, 좋아요를 누르려면 Planta 앱을 다운로드하세요: https://getplanta.com/download_