Accession Data

Mammillaria bombycina

Common Name: Silken Pincushion

Family: Cactaceae

Country of Origin: Mexico - Aguascalientes and Jalisco

Description: Plants often forming clumps to 80 cm (31 in) wide. Stems depressed globose to club shaped, bright green, 7 - 14 cm (2.8 - 5.5 in) high, 5 - 6 cm (2 - 2.4 in) in diameter. Tubercules conical to cylindrical, firm. Axil with dense wool and bristles. Radial spines 30 - 64, stiff, thin, needle-like, glassy white, to yellowish white to 8 mm (0.3 in) long. Central spines 3 - 8, yellow with dark tips, or reddish brown, lowermost one hooked and to 20 mm (0.8 in) long, others straight and to 11 mm (0.4 in) long. Flowers funnelform, pink to white, to 15 mm (0.6 in) long and in diameter. Fruit pale pinkish green. Seeds dark reddish brown, with partially lateral hilum.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 10

Accession #: 199200053

Accession Date: 1992-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2211

Quantity: 2

Source: Andy Indars

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: core eudicots

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Cactaceae

SubFamily: Cactoideae

Tribe: Cacteae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. Mammillaria Forum
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, September 29, 2017.
  3. Mammillaria bombycina at IUCN Redlist. Last accessed on Friday, September 29, 2017.

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