Mammillaria

OWN ROOTS!!! A tiny white-spined beauty . It remains small, max 2-3 cm, diameter 3 cm or less when fully grown (but can grow more and cluster in cultivation). Impressive and not very common in collections.

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 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.

Two years old seedling, not grafted. Mammillaria breviplumosa is a new very rare species with small feather-like spines arranged helicoidaly on the stem. Flower white with magenta striped petals.

Seed grown approx. 1-1,5 cm. VERY RARE.

Dwarf form, with huge violet-pink flowers. Beautiful.

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.

A sweet little mat forming plant, with long-lasting flowers and ornamental fruits. A very nice addition to any collection!

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

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.

The violet-magenta flowers are very large for a so small plant! As it ages will form mats of small soft-bodied stems. ROOTED CUTTING

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.

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.

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.

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.

Small bluish-green body, hooked spines, large pink.

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.

Huge 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 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.

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

Very nice form with 4 (-6) very short orangish radial spines. The younger spines are yellow and very attractive).

Roted cutting 1-2 cm

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.

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.

White wolly round stems with pink flowers.

Mammillaria woodsii has small tubercles each topped by a tiny star of white radial spines and brown-black central spines, all amidst thick white wool. The flowers are purplish red and appear mainly in spring and summer.

Dwarf form of ARIZONA SNOWCAP

Mammillaria bocasana v. roseiflora is a selected form of the variable Mammillaria bocasana. Characteristic of this cactus are its pink or rich rose coloured 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.

Mammillaria muehlenpfordtii is a massive globose cactus with bright carmine flowers. It divide dichotomously to form two stems as it matures, this process repeats several times giving rise to large mounds. The spines are glassy white and yellow.

It alternates seasonal growth phases with tubercles without spines (f. inermis) with others with long spines. Odd and original.