Mammillaria

# # # SPECIAL PLANT # # # (Selected specimen) Lenght 15 cm. H 9cm.

Mammillaria bombycina is a beautiful species that will produce clumps, as a washing up bowl. It has glassy white radial spines with hooked reddish-brown centrals. It produce several complete circles of contrasting light carmine flowers every year.

Seed plants selected for the variegated body. Very beautiful and strange. Variables.

A.k.a. Bird's nest Mammillaria, this is a wonderful old favourite cultivar with curly golden-yellow spines. A plant soon forming many heads. The new growth is very attractive, the long, entwining yellowish spines soon form a mat. A real beauty.

It is a well known cultivar characterized by very reduced or absent spines, free branching, and with small pink flowers.

"Arizona Snowcap" shows an odd thickening and shortening of the spines, resulting in a most attractive, unusual candid white looking plants.

Mammillaria nivosa is one of the wooliest mams with beautiful golden-yellow-spines. After producing several rounds of blooms earlier in the year it will give strikingly bright red fruit. This is a really beautiful cactus.

After several years the old plants divide at their apex, ramifying dichotomously (to form two or more distinct joints) and in 10-15 years they forms small colony. It is a pleasing sight, even in the depths of winter.

Now often considered a synonym of Mammillaria sheldonii, to which it shows only modest differences: absence of central spines and larger flowers with a characteristic distinctive orange pistil.

Small clustering species with fine, feathery, flexible, somewhat pectinated, white to almost orange spines. Flowers with pink midstripes at the end of winter in February-March.

M. schiedeana subs. giselae f. albiflora is a rare cultivar that forms a graceful yellowish-white puff with eventual offsets and nice pure white flowers. It could be a cross between M. giselae and M. carmenae. it is one of the most fascinating cultivars.

Robust stems, later cylindrical, with reddish spination and pink flowers! The spines increase their red color and density as the plant ages. Super plants.

Flowers wide purplish pink ,style pink with nice green stigma-lobes Bloomis in April and the flowers remain open for several days (at least three)

Compact, rather low body, fast growing, many purple-pink flowers. Forms large emispheric mounds in time.

Mammillaria marcosi is a beautiful plant with white radial spines and dark reddish-brown centrals. It will slowly forms irregular clumps with dense spination. It may grow up to 25 cm in diameter, with up to 30 heads.

M. bocasana var multilanata has round soft stems with an extreme abundance of white woolly hairs and short hooked central spines. The flowers are numerous, large and pink.

Flowers are very showy, light purplish-pink with a pinkish brown midstripe and paler margins, about 20-30 mm in diameter. The fruit are club shaped, pale scarlet 25-30 mm long.

Mammilloydia candida called 'Snowball' is a choice cactus with a so dense snowy white, spination, that its body appears hidden by spines. Mammilloydia are clearly related to the genus Mammillaria, but it is usually recognized as a segregate genera.

Mammillaria geminispina v. nobilis has long white spines and carmine flowers in spring and in autumn too. It gets only better looking with age. It will continue to put on more and more heads. The heads form mounds that seem stacked on top of each other.

Mammillaria surculosa (Syn: Dolichnthele surculosa) is a low-growing widely spreading cactus forming crowded mats or mounds of small heads and relatively large, bright yellow flowers.

Mammillaria pectinifera, previously known as Solisia pectinata, is a small cactus. The spines are pectinate (comb-like), flattened against the body, fine, numerous, white, 1.5 -2 mm long. Flower white to pink with darker mid-strip.

Produces a profusion of red tasty berries without any need of pollination (self-fertile). It will form soon dense mounds with dozen of small stems.

Mammillaria voburnensis is a cactus with a distinctive whitish-yellow tomentum near its apex. This species branches out to form clusters up to 30 centimeters in both height and width. The flowers are yellowi

Mammillaria multidigitata is endemic to San Pedro Nolasco Island in Mexico, where it growson steep slopes. From spring to early summer it sprouts white to cream colored flowers with yellow-green stigma and orange pollen.

ammillaria collinsii features white flowers with pink mid-veins, a central spine, and 7 radial spines. Stems grow to 16 cm tall and 9 cm wide, branching from the base to form clumps up to 40 cm in diameter.

Central spines amber-yellow, dark orange or reddish-brown. Radial spines white.

Seed-grown plants of variable appearance, areoles mostly without thorns. Deep pink to purple flowers.

It thrives alongside Ferocactus echidne REP1139A and Mammillaria priessnitzii REP1134 in its natural environment.

Mammillaria nejapensis is very variable, especially for the length of the spines, that greatly depends on sun exposure and age of the plant. This species forms large colonies by dichotomous division.

Mammillaria fraileana is a small cactus that forms clusters of cylindrical stems. The flowers are light pink with a darker pink midline and a bright purplish pink stigma. The club-shaped red fruits last a long time on the plant. Central spine is hooked.

Flattened globular cactus up to 4 cm tall and 8 cm wide, featuring reddish-brown central spines and carmine flowers.

Self-fertile plant. Produces flowers in succession over a long period. The red, edible berries are produced in abundance without the need for fertilization. Easy to grow.

The variety ruberrima is a particularly distinctive form of the species Mammillaria rhodantha . The term "ruberrima" comes from Latin and means "very red" or "ruby-colored," which perfectly describes this variety's defining trait.

White wolly round stems with pink flowers.

Dwarf form of ARIZONA SNOWCAP

Mammilloydia candida called 'Snowball' is a choice cactus with a so dense snowy white, spination, that its body appears hidden by spines. Mammilloydia are clearly related to the genus Mammillaria, but it is usually recognized as a segregate genera.

Mammillaria conspicua, can be distinguished from the other forms of the Mammillaria haageana complex because it is often solitary and has larger stems up to 10-11 cm in diameter. Each head is surrounded by a full ring of magenta pink star-like flowers.

Mammillaria oteroi clusters freely and the offsets detach readily. It has some of the roundest fruits among mammillarias. The fruits are globose, 7-8 mm long, bright red. Flowers are pale yellowish green with muddy cerise midstripe.

Creamy-white spines and flowers.