Publication: Mammillaria Postscripts 6: 10 1997
Description
Plants clustering. Stems more or less spherical to short cylindrical, green, to 15 cm high, 4 - 12 cm in diameter. The areoles are large and woolly , while the axil is naked.
Radial spines : 10 - 12, white with brown tips, 5 - 7 mm long.
Central spines: Usually 1 yellowish-brown, to 10 mm long.
Flowers: Creamy white, 10 - 14 mm long to 18 mm long with darker midveins in a ring in the growth of the previous year.
Fruits: Light purplish, 20-30 mm long.
Origin and Habitat
Yucatan, Mexico. Almost Endemic of Savana Chichulu and perhaps in the nearest forests of Yucatán and Quintana Roo (under different climate) Altitude just above sea level to 8-25 m.
Habitat: This is a rare species that would delight any naturalist, it grows in full sun or under shrub canopy half-hidden in the dunes sand of the beachfront land in the amazing transition zone between the mangroves - where saltwater occasionally floods in the almost-flat land - and the scrubby, spiny, arid-land with succulent plants typical of inland northern Yucatan.
Cultivation and Propagation
This is an easy to grow species, don’t requires any special treatment, but need as much light as possible without burning the plant to encourage the heaviest spine formation. Needs a very good drainage with regular water in summer, dry in winter. Avoid any frost.
Propagation: Seeds, offsets (Allow cut surface to callous over before planting)
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