Succulent ID

If you have a cactus plant and need help identifying it, this is the place to post it.
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1avillegassr
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Succulent ID

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This plant has been in our family for three generations, can anyone identify it? It's flat and on the outer edges it has niches where new growth sprouts out.

Thank you,
Albert
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Tom Roach
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I would not know the species, but it is an Orchid Cactus (Epiphyllum).

For a long time I wondered what these things were and several years ago at a family reunion my Mom, her sisters and some cousins were talking plants and these came up. I thought I had finally found out what I had at the house as I asked what in the world it was. The consensus was that it was a “frog plant” or a “zaba”.
Upon further research found out that “žába” was the Czech word for frog and I was right back where I started.
1avillegassr
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Thanks Tom.
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Where's the rest of the plant. After all those years it should huge. Mine are trying to break out of the GH. Read up on the proper care for epiphyllums. Sue
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