A not-co-common Mammillaria
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- iann
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A not-co-common Mammillaria
Don't see Mammillaria boolii about too much. It isn't exactly a looker, but it does have nice flowers.
Cheshire, UK
Re: A not-co-common Mammillaria
Maybe not as uncommon but still nice and still from the same family. And one of them from seed 2014.iann wrote:Don't see Mammillaria boolii about too much. It isn't exactly a looker, but it does have nice flowers.
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Re: A not-co-common Mammillaria
Another one of the same type, M. blossfeldiana. Nice and compact, plus the big flowers.
Cheshire, UK
Re: A not-co-common Mammillaria
There is also big flowers species with white flowers
fraileana albicans
fraileana albicans
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Re: A not-co-common Mammillaria
My boolii unfortunately died while in storage and my guelzaniana soon afterwards. I do like the larger flowered mammillarias. Senilis is a good one as the flowers are quite large but also red, unusually for mams.
Rod Smith
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Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
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Re: A not-co-common Mammillaria
I have 2 boolii and I can't get them to flower. They often start buds but abort them or they sit there in the axils and never progress. Do you find it needs particularly hot temps or something to flower? Schumannii, fraileana, guelzowiana etc all flower fine for me.
Re: A not-co-common Mammillaria
if the buds of your boolii abort more water and fertilizer
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Re: A not-co-common Mammillaria
Try this one[attachment Mammillaria Mazatlanensis v Patoni
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Re: A not-co-common Mammillaria
Amazing, Brian!
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