Mammillaria

With the uniqueness of the spine patterns this tiny plant is a real gem and one of the most sought-after and distinctive species of Mammillaria. Diameter 1,5-2 cm flowering size!

# # # 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.

Mammillaria bertholdii is a small remarkable cactus species. It is a very flat geophyte that produce only a small disc of tubercles that can be seen flat at the soil surface. The feathery spines closely resemble a Pelecyphora aselliformis.

Mammillaria herrerae is small cactus that look like a little golf ball with dense addpressed, white spines. The flowers are quite large for a Mammillaria, pale pink to red-violet and very showy.

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.

Rare species, prized for its unusually large, crocus-like blooms - among the showiest in the genus. Simply stunning!

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.

The whole habitat of this plant (discovered only in 1997) disappeared under the water of a man-made dam. It is extinct in nature. The stem covered by numerous hairlike radial spines, giving the plant a shaggy appearance.

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

Beautiful plant with showy with white radial spines and hooked red-brown central spines.It bears pink-magenta flowers and grows on steep Mexican rocks, blooming from April to July.

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)

Mammillaria tlalocii is an attractive and rewarding cactus with dense white spines The slow growth rate make it one of the most sought-after species.

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.

Clumping cactus, irregularly forming clusters up to 1 m across or more. Flowers large, spectacular, zygomorphic bright scarlet. Not the most easy to grow but worth trying. Be careful with too much water and give it good ventilation. Strong spination.

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.

Globular plant with short white radial spines and almost no central spines. Spines becomes stranger and develop an amber hue over time, especially in direct sunlight. Pink to purple flowers.

Mammillaria pringlei is one of the few Mammillaria that is completely covered with yellow spines. Probably it has one of the longest non stop blooming streak of any cactus. Flowers can appear any time of the year, mostly from early spring to late summer.

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.

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 occidentalis also known as Mammillaria mazatlanensis var. occidentalis is a clumping species which has large pink flowers in summer. The flowers are 1 cm long and are slightly scented. These can be followed by red fruits.

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.

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.