Except for the color of the flowers, this plant is a spitting image for Mammilloydia candida... it's a sperical, white, offsetting specie...Read Mores (white because the radial spines are pressed against the body of the cactus giving in a snowball appearance). Flowers a bright pink in spring.
Bright pink-purple flowers, small tightly fitting, low lying spines.
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Added to clarify th...Read Moree differences between this species and Mammilloydia candida.
The International Cacaceae Systematics Group (ICSG) accepted the Mammilloydia as a separate and distinct genus in the year 2001. The difference is the seeds are not pitted and lack perisperm. The Mammilloydia genus is believed to be a result of convergent evolution between the Mammillaria and Neolloydia genera.
Also, in 2001 the ICSG decided that Mammillaria humboldtii is a separate and different species of Mammilloydia candida, it is not a synonym as of 2001.
Except for the color of the flowers, this plant is a spitting image for Mammilloydia candida... it's a sperical, white, offsetting specie...Read More
Bright pink-purple flowers, small tightly fitting, low lying spines.
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Added to clarify th...Read More