Unknown Mamma with flowers

Mladen_DJ · Post by **Mladen_DJ** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:21 pm

This is one of my first cacti, so lets say its important to me.

I have it for three years, and these are first flowers. Before I was trying to put in somewhere between M. bombycina, dioica, magnifica, longiflora, blossfeldiana. But this flowers are not fits in

. It is 9 cm high, 6 cm in diameter, has long hooked centrals (about 2,5 to 3 cm), none or minimal wool. Picture isn't very good, taken with phone, but guess it is relative clear. So anyone...

iann · Post by **iann** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:42 pm

Mammillaria magnifica. It's a fairly short spined form but I can't think what else it would be.

Mladen_DJ · Post by **Mladen_DJ** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:09 pm

Thanks iann, M magnifica looks like a fair match, but spination looks pretty different, also flowers on my plant seems darker.

I'm searching just now, and jump over a M. rekoi ssp rekoi:
http://mammillarias.net/gallery/mammill ... ring=rekoi ssp rekoi&lg=uk

It looks to me like best match for now.

Post by **daiv** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:10 pm

could be something in the M. crinita group - such as zielmanianna. Even though it is not the right shape.

Mladen_DJ · Post by **Mladen_DJ** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:19 pm

Well, rekoi ssp rekoi still looks to me like best match for now. I also notice its not even listed here on Cactiguide. Does it mean its not official (sub)species, or..?

Post by **daiv** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:14 am

Mladen_DJ wrote:Well, rekoi ssp rekoi still looks to me like best match for now. I also notice its not even listed here on Cactiguide. Does it mean its not official (sub)species, or..?

No, that only means I don't have pictures of that ssp. There is never only one subspecies or you could say that everything has a subspecies with the same name as the species - e.g. Carnegiea gigantea ssp. gigantea, but since there are no other ssp's the "ssp. gigantea" is superfluous and therefore not mentioned.

Following this, if you have M. rekoi ssp aureispina, then every plant that is not ssp aureispina, is automatically ssp. rekoi. Then if you add a third, such as M. rekoi ssp leptacantha, then everything that is not aureispina or leptacantha is rekoi and so it goes.

I think the concept is much easier than it is to describe.

Mladen_DJ · Post by **Mladen_DJ** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:29 am

Thanx for clearification daiv. I was little bit confused at first.

Well if you need photo, and if my M. rekoi is realy M. rekoi as I think it is, you know where you can find it.

I believe my M. rekoi will be honored to be a model.