Description
Mammillaria bombycina f. albicentralis is a selected form or cultivars that differs from the standard Mammillaria bombycina only for its evenly creamy-white hooked central spines, (tips never dark reddish-brown), all the other characteristics clearly show that they are conspecific. It is very similar to Mammillaria bombycina f. flavispina (with creamy-yellow or yellow central spines) and possibly exactly the same.
Origin and Habitat
Garden origin. Selected form.
Cultivation and Propagation
This is one of the easier species to grow, it is an easy bloomer and don’t requires any special treatment, it have consistently clean spination whether grown indoors or out but the plants are the most beautiful when cultivated in the full sun that encourage the heaviest spine formation. Regular water in summer. Keep dry in winter. Frost tolerance: 4° C.
Propagation: Seeds, offsets or grafting.