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Any ideas? Plant is in a 4 inch/10cm pot.![]() |
DaisyI May 4, 2018 12:13 AM CST |
Maybe Finger Cactus - Mammillaria longimamma Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada Webmaster: osnnv.org |
skopjecollection May 4, 2018 12:59 AM CST |
Later wiew maybe? Could be from dolichotele subgenus. |
DaisyI May 4, 2018 10:21 AM CST |
Are you agreeing or disagreeing? Dolichothele longimamma is a synonym for Mammillaria longimamma. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada Webmaster: osnnv.org |
skopjecollection May 4, 2018 10:39 AM CST |
Agree on the subgenus, disagree on species. Kind of too skinny and frail and wimpy to be that one.Decipens or mariner- lapostollei or something. Spines are not convincing enough for me.... |
It came to me as Dolichothele camptotricha (which didn't seem right) so I was also thinking decipiens. Maybe we need to wait a while to know. |
DaisyI May 4, 2018 4:00 PM CST |
Then you will like this website: https://public.fotki.com/Panos... Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada Webmaster: osnnv.org |
mcvansoest May 4, 2018 5:39 PM CST |
camptotricha is a ssp. of decipiens I think, these days. mammillarias.net is a pretty good resource when it comes to Mammillarias... It is what it is! |
Thank you everyone for your input. I guess I should have gone with the name it came with, then. (In its modern form.) I had a big clump of camptotricha for years (it rotted rather unexpectedly) but the resemblance is not so obvious with this juvenile. Daisy, your picture shows the ontogeny of the spines in a way that makes a connection for me. And that is a really useful site, Thijs. ![]() Did I just use the word ontogeny in a sentence? ![]() |
Hamwild May 4, 2018 7:53 PM CST |
I was thinking Mammillaria longimamma myself. |
mcvansoest May 4, 2018 8:13 PM CST |
I think longimamma has a lot more spines compared to this one, but that is definitely not always definitive. It is what it is! |
DaisyI May 4, 2018 9:45 PM CST |
Baja_Costero said: Yes.... ![]() Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada Webmaster: osnnv.org |
Regarding other potential IDs, I think the question will be simpler when the plant grows up. Right now it doesn't have the adult number of spines, I think. And the tubercles probably seem more pronounced than they will be with time. The flower color will be definitive with respect to decipiens vs. longimamma (white vs. yellow) so I suspect everything will become much clearer once the plant becomes sexually mature. ![]() |
Flowers came early... looks more and more like the ID of M. decipiens was correct.![]() Reference images here... http://www.mammillarias.net/ph... ![]() |
Hamwild May 22, 2018 6:38 PM CST |
So cute! ![]() |
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