Christmas Eve is the day before what is considered one of the major holidays of Christianity. It falls on December 24.

In the tradition of the Western world is of great symbolic value as it celebrates the night, the birth of Jesus Christ in a cave of Bethlehem, in Judea, the region of Palestine.

According to the Gospels, following a star to Bethlehem, the Magi from the East found a baby lying in a manger, they recognized the importance and offered him gold, frankincense and myrrh.

For the faithful, the day before the vigil serves as a transit to the mystery of the birth of the God who became man and entered into human history: they give the finishing touches to the crib, get ready for Midnight Mass in a pending which seeks to present and the real miracle of the birth of Christ.

Original value was added that the party’s modern, perceived by non-believers, characterized by a rich dinner (which is known as Eve) and the exchange of gifts, care for people, at midnight (in some regions of Italy, others recall the exchange of gifts and the main meal for lunch the next day).

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Rebutia is a genus in the family of cacti (Cactaceae). The botanical name honors the French winemakers and Sukkulentengärtner Pierre Rebut.

Description

Rebutia species are succulent plants with small down-spherical, spherical or short columnar shape. At the mother plant often form in culture Kindel. This can be used for the propagation and plant in sandy substrate.

In case that they are on the mother plant, they can act as a group plant is very attractive. The ribs are broken in warts. The spines are straight, fine to almost borstendünn and yellow, white or slightly brownish color.

The dainty-trichterfömigen (rarely bell) flowers appear in part already annuals. They arise laterally in the lower half of the plant body and often appear in large number to bloom for several days, open during the day and close the evening.

Initially, only red flowering species were known, were later discovered, some with purple, lilac, orange, yellow and white flowers. The corolla tube is usually thin and scaly on the outside small.

The scales bare shoulders, depending on the nature, woolly or even be bristly. Some species share after fertilization with their own pollen fruits, others only after pollination.

The thin-walled, small tears on fruit during drying. It contains fine mützenförmige seeds of black or brown, the surface can be matt or shiny.

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Spread
The propagation of the species is vegetatively through root generative shoots and by seed. With its yard-long roots, from which new shoots, a single plant can colonize large areas. Already root pieces of two centimeters in length and 3.5 millimeters in diameter showed a regeneration rate by 100%. 10 cm long root pieces can make plants when they are 60 cm deep in soil. The spread of agricultural machines, cutting through the roots and the lug is in agricultural regions, the most important propagation mechanism of Art addition, it is also spread through contaminated seed.

The fruits are eaten by animals and so the seeds spread out (Endozoochorie). The main consumers are birds, and then also small mammals. Of grazing animals, the plants will be avoided because of the spines.

Distribution
The original range of the species are the U.S. states on the Gulf of Mexico. In northern Mexico (Sonora, Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon), in 31 U.S. states and southern Canada, it is now regarded as naturalized. The spreading tendency of the species is high. About North America, they were introduced in the following countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Haiti, Brazil, Georgia and Turkey. In Europe it is known from Croatia, France, Germany, Netherlands, England, Norway and Austria.

The natural sites are the deciduous hardwood forests. As an invasive plant, it grows in fields, gardens, meadows, vacant lots and along roadsides. In the U.S., it is classified as one of the 10 most problematic weeds. It grows in fields and plantations of preferably peanut, tea (Camellia sinensis), tomato, potato, maize, soybean, garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), garden strawberry (Fragaria ananassa), alfalfa (Medicago sativa) and various grasses: Cynodon dactylon, ordinary orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata), pipe-canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea), meadow grass (Poa pratensis).

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