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Mammillaria to Myrtillocactus

Mammillaria bombycina
"Silken Pincushion"

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary sometimes clumping, to 8 inches tall, 2.5 inches in dia. Moderate water in summer. Keep dry in winter. Flower pink to red.

3" Pot Size

6" Pot Size

Mammillaria candida
Mammilloydia candida
"Snowball Cactus"

Growth Characteristics:
Plants solitary sometimes clustering. Stems globose to elongated, to 12" tall, 6" in diameter, covered with white spines. Flowers, pink or white.

4" Pot Size

Mammillaria elongata
"Lady Fingers"

Growth Characteristics:
Clumping, stems to 1+ inches in diameter.  Water sparingly, needs good drainage. Keep dry in winter.

6" Pot Size

Cactus Terms:
Pubescent Radials: short, soft, and down-like spines.

Mammillaria grahamii oliviae
Mammillaria microcarpa

Growth Characteristics:
Generally Solitary, cylindrical, up to 6" tall and 21/2" in diameter.  Flowers Pink.

3" Pot

out of stock

Growth Characteristics:
Spherical, clumping forming 2-3 feet wide mounds as it matures, each stem up to 4 inches in diameter.

3 1/2" Pot Size

Mammillaria haageana ssp san-angelensis
Mammillaria dealbata

Growth Characteristics:
Generally solitary, up to 4 inches tall, 3 inches in diameter. Water sparingly, needs good drainage. Flowers pink to carmine.

3 1/2" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Clustering, stems up to 4 inches tall, 4 inches in diameter. Needs good drainage.

6" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Clumping, heads are up to 5" wide. Needs good drainage. Flowers pink.

6" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary, columnar, up to 5 inches tall, 3.5 inches wide. Flowers small pink flowers in late winter.

2 3/4" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Cylindrical, cactus, up to 4 inches tall, 3 inches wide. Needs good drainage. Flower white with red strips.

6" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Clumping, stems are up to 3 inches in diameter. Needs good drainage, rot prone. Flowers purple pink.

3 1/2" Pot Size

Mammillaria longiflora ssp. longiflora
Krainzia longiflora

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary cactus, to 4 inches tall and4 inches in diameter. Water sparingly, provide good drainage.

3" Pot Size

out of stock

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary sometimes clumping, up to 5 inches in diameter. Flowers bright yellow.

4" Pot

6" Pot

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary, or slowly clumping, bright green to yellowish green stem, 2 to 6 inches tall , 2 to 5 inches wide. Needs good drainage.

6" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Each stem up to 2.5 inches in diameter. Needs good drainage.

6" Pot Size

out of stock

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary but may clumping, green body, up to 1 foot tall, 6 inches wide. Needs good drainage. Flowers purplish pink.

4" Pot Size

Mammillaria petterssonii
Mammillaria obscura

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary until maturity, then offsetting slowly. Each head up to 5 inches tall, 3 inches wide. Flowers pink.

4" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary, columnar, 4 inches in diameter, 2 feet tall. Nearly spineless. Rose to pink flowers.

3 1/4" Pot Size

Cactus Terms: Inermis: unarmed; lacking spines, prickles or thorns, as a leaf.

Mammillaria plumosa
"Feather Cactus"

Growth Characteristics:
Low, dense mounds to 16" wide. Stems globose, light green, 3" high and in diameter. Feather like spines.

4" Pot Size

6" Pot Size

Mammillaria rhodantha ssp. pringlei
Mammillaria pringlei

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary, to slowly branching, round, up to 10 inches tall, 5 inches wide. Moderate water. Keep dry in winter. Flowers Cherry red in summer.

4" Pot Size

6" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Clumping, each head grows up to 4 inches tall and 2 inches in diameter. Needs good drainage.

6" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Clumping, up to 1 1/2 inches tall, 3/4 inch wide. Water carefully, needs good drainage. Flowers Large pink.

3" Pot Size

4 " Pot

Growth Characteristics:
Clumping, bluish stems, up to 2 inches in diameter, 5 inches long. Needs good drainage. Purplish pink flowers, in summer.

 3" Pot Size

out of stock

Mammillaria senilis
Mamillopsis senilis

Growth Characteristics:
Slowly clumping, 6 inches tall, 4 inches wide.  Water carefully, needs good drainage. Rots easily.

6" Pot Size

Mammillaria sphacelata ssp viperina
Mammillaria viperina

Growth Characteristics:
Commonly clustering, forming sprawling clumps to 20 inches or more across. Stems cylindrical, up to12 inches tall, no more than about 1 inch in diameter. Flowers carmine to dark purplish red.

6" Pot Size

Mammillaria spinosissima
"Red-headed Irishman"

Growth Characteristics:
Columnar and clumping, up to 12 inches tall, 4 inches in diameter. Flowers red.

4" Pot Size

6" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Columnar and clumping, up to 12 inches tall, 4 inches in diameter. Flowers red.

4" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary, cylindrical, slow growing to 5 inches tall, 2 inches in diameter. Needs good drainage. Flowers Purplish pink.

6" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Clumping, each head up to 3 inches in diameter. Water sparingly, needs good drainage. Flowers yellow.

4" Pot Size

6" Pot

Melocactus azureus
"Turk's Cap Cactus"

Growth Characteristics:
Cephalium bearing globular cactus with blue body, up to 6 inches in diameter, 8 inches tall. Needs good drainage. Keep above 40°F. Flower pink to red.

3 1/2" Pot Size

6" Pot Size

Melocactus matanzanus
"Dwarf Turk's Cap"

Growth Characteristics:
Cephalium bearing globular cactus, up to 4 inches in diameter, 4 inches tall. Needs good drainage.

3 3/4" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Up to 12 inches tall. Keep warm and reduce water in winter, needs good drainage.  Flowers red.

3" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Normally solitary spherical cactus, up to 6 inches tall, and 4 inches in diameter. Needs good drainage.

3" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Up to 6 inches tall, 4 inches in diameter. Keep warm and water less in winter, needs good drainage.

3" Pot Size

Myrtillocactus geometrizans
"Blue Candle"

Growth Characteristics:
Candelabra like tree to fifteen feet tall, stems 3 to 4 inches thick. Flowers small white.

6" Pot Size

out of stock 

Cactus Terms: Cephalium: a woolly growth at the top or side of some cactus species from which flowers and fruit appear. It is produced once the plant reaches maturity, and the plant quits growing. The Cephalium, however can continue to grow for many years.

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