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Mammillaria scrippsiana


Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Neomammillaria scrippsiana, Mammillaria pseudoscrippsiana, Neomammillaria ortegae, Mammillaria ortegae
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Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Cacteae
Distribution: Durango, Jalisco, Nayarit, Zacatecas - Mexico (North America)
Habit: Globose
Flower: Pink, YellowEncounterability: Common Locally in Some Areas
Original Description: The Cactaceae 4 p.84 - Britton & Rose (1920)
Globose or becoming short-cylindric, 6 cm high; tubercles milky, in 26 rows, bluish green, very woolly in axils when young; spine-areoles very woolly at first; radial spines 8 to 10, slender, pale with reddish tips; central spines generally 2, a little longer than radials, brown throughout, slightly divergent; flowers borne near top of plant but not in axils of youngest tubercles, about 1 cm long, pinkish, with margins of perianth-segments paler; anthers pinkish; stigma-lobes about 6, recurved, cream-colored,.
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Mammillaria scrippsiana
M. scrippsiana
Picture taken at: Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Superior, AZ

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Mammillaria scrippsiana
M. scrippsiana
Picture taken at: Suleyman Demir's Private Collection in Ankara, Turkey

Photographer: Suleyman
Mammillaria scrippsiana
M. scrippsiana
Picture taken at: Mike Wisnev's Private Collection

Photographer: Mike Wisnev
Mammillaria scrippsiana
M. scrippsiana
Picture taken at: Grigsby Cactus Gardens, Vista, CA

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Mammillaria scrippsiana
M. scrippsiana
Picture taken at: Private Collection

Photographer: Joel Lode

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