My little collection

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I like the labels on the pictures - quality work!
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Nice one!
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very beautiful! I somehow can't grow this species...
is it normal for it to have such variable flowers?
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StrUktO wrote:very beautiful! I somehow can't grow this species...
is it normal for it to have such variable flowers?
M. bocasana can have flowers from almost white to almost red.
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Beautiful, really beautiful. =D>
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lovely flowers!
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I said it before and I'll say it again beautiful absolutely beautiful. I just never tire of looking at these flowers. Some people say they can't see the fascination of cacti as the flowers, although extraordinary, they don't last long, but I think that is the best thing, you wait for them to bloom and are then rewarded with a spetacular like this.
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Wow, I like the vibrant Mam. flowers!
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Wow, absolutely pristine Mammillarias! Well done! I'm a sucker for hooked spines!
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You're right about the Mamms, but that "I'm a sucker for hoked spines" comment, I don't know about that one. I actually made an order last week for a different species of Mamm, but I ended up with the M. bocasana, and that thing is unforgiving when it sticks you :D
It has hooked me twice, the first time unwrapping it, and once when I was reaching for another cactus next too it. The second time I got hooked, by two of the spines. It hooked me so good I actually pulled the plant right out of its pot :lol:
I respect them hooked spines now, trust me! I take extra care now when I work near that plant. :lol:
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