Couple of IDs please

[IanFrance]

The first one has grown from a little button sized plant I picked up three years ago and has now flowered. It looks like a Parodia.

Parodia flowers

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Parodia plant

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The second one gave me a lot of trouble. When I got it home from the shop, I found the root system had completely rotted away. It spent the next year as a rootless blob sitting on coarse sand. It eventually rooted and has now produced two growing centres, but grows very slowly. It looks as if it might be a Mammillaria. Any ideas?

Mammillaria?

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Many thanks,

Ian.

[DaveW]

First one is Notocactus submammulosus, now "lumped" under Notocactus mammulosus and renamed Parodia mammulosa.

In latin botanical names the gender of the ending of the species is changed to match that of the genus it is placed in, therefore Notocactus mammulosus becomes Parodia mammulosa.

[Mike]

The second looks a bit like offsets of Cochemiea (some say Mammillaria) poselgeri. who knows til it grows more. I have had one for 9 years without blooming!

[CactusFanDan]

Second is a Thelocactus rinconensis form.

[vlani]

First one was known as Notocactus turecheki. It is very distinct form of N.mammillosus
The second one is Fero suniatus I think, young and not formed yet

[DaveW]

I think that's the normal common N. submammulosus Vlani. N. turececkianus has even longer spines and is now usually considered a synonym of N. submammulosus, which in turn has now been "lumped" into N. mammulosus and then all into Parodia.

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The Notocactus turecekianus form is far less common in cultivation than the old N. submammulosus which has been in cultivation far longer. You don't see N. turecekianus around much now either?