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Mammillaria to Myrtillocactus

 Mammillaria berkeana
Mammillaria mercadensis

Growth Characteristics:
2 to 3 inch stems.  Flowers light pink.  Needs good drainage.

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

Growth Characteristics:
Columnar, offsets with time, up to 6 inches tall. Normal water during growing cycle.

4" Pot Size - $6.50

Growth Characteristics:
Clumping, heads 1.6 to 2.4 inches in diameter, pubescent radial spines.  Yellow flowers in spring. Keep dry in winter.

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.

Growth Characteristics:
Generally solitary, up to 3 inches tall, 3.5 inches wide.  Water sparingly, needs good drainage.

6" 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:
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:
Clumping, heads up to 2 inches in diameter.  Water carefully, needs good drainage.

3" Pot Size

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

4" Pot

6" Pot

Growth Characteristics:
Clumping with stems up to 3" in diameter.  Needs good drainage rot prone.

4" Pot Size

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:
Generally solitary up to 12" tall, 2" wide.  Needs good drainage.  Water sparingly.

4" Pot

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary, up to 6 inches tall, 4 inches wide.   Hardy to 15° F. Regular water in summer.

6" Pot Size

Growth Characteristics:
Solitary, up to 4 inches tall, 6 inches wide.  Water sparingly, needs good drainage.  Hardy to 20°F.

4" Pot Size

6" Pot Size

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

6" Pot Size

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

Growth Characteristics:

Stems up to 2.5 inches in diameter. Flowers purplish pink.   Needs good drainage.

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 up to 1-1/2" tall, 3/4" in diameter.  Needs good drainage, little water, rots easily.

3" 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:
Clumps slowly, grows to 4" wide, 6" tall.  Needs good drainage.  Water lightly.

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

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.

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

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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

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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