Hello, could you id me this one?
Thank you
Mammillaria (I)
-
- Posts: 59
- Joined: Sun Oct 30, 2022 6:00 pm
- Location: Sevilla, Spain. Zone 10b
Mammillaria (I)
- Attachments
-
- IMG_20240404_133820.jpg (122.52 KiB) Viewed 3255 times
Re: Mammillaria (I)
M. haageana?
"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right"
Location: The sunny North of England!
Location: The sunny North of England!
Re: Mammillaria (I)
Mammillaria crucigera subs. tlalocii.
Re: Mammillaria (I)
Or possibly a close relation of Mammillaria tlalocii = Mammillaria huitzilopotchlii since the central spines are usually produced on older plants, often intermittently or not at all.
- Tom in Tucson
- Posts: 442
- Joined: Sun Jan 02, 2022 4:12 pm
- Location: NW Tucson AZ area
Re: Mammillaria (I)
Agreed. Another possibility is the enigmatic M. sp. FO 229:
-
- Posts: 59
- Joined: Sun Oct 30, 2022 6:00 pm
- Location: Sevilla, Spain. Zone 10b
Re: Mammillaria (I)
Where that name come from?Tom in Tucson wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:09 pmAgreed. Another possibility is the enigmatic M. sp. FO 229:
I'll try to upload tomorrow a better pic, maybe it helps
Jorge
Re: Mammillaria (I)
Just looked up FO numbers in Ralph Martin's database. FO = Felipe Otero a Mexican cactus collector and the entry for FO 229 is:-
Field number: FO 229
Collector: Felipe Otero
Species: Mammillaria elegans v.
Locality: Conpuerta, Sierra Mixteca, border Oaxaca-Pueblo, Mexico
Altitude:
Date: 14-May-88
Notes: minute white spines, red flowers; M. tlalocii
For those that have not used the Ralph Martin/BCSS database it is here:-
https://www.fieldnos.bcss.org.uk/
You may also find some details of these plants in Otero et al field notes:-
https://mammillaria.net/mexican-field-notes/
Field number: FO 229
Collector: Felipe Otero
Species: Mammillaria elegans v.
Locality: Conpuerta, Sierra Mixteca, border Oaxaca-Pueblo, Mexico
Altitude:
Date: 14-May-88
Notes: minute white spines, red flowers; M. tlalocii
For those that have not used the Ralph Martin/BCSS database it is here:-
https://www.fieldnos.bcss.org.uk/
You may also find some details of these plants in Otero et al field notes:-
https://mammillaria.net/mexican-field-notes/