Mammillaria saboae

[Ali Baba]

This is usually early for me but seems extra early flowering this year

[el48tel]

Nice one (or should that be two?)

[Ali Baba]

Not as unusually early as I thought, here it is last year on April 13th

[AndrewB]

Nice plant, is it grafted?

Regards,

[Stuart]

Looks to have been grown quite hard which keeps it nice and flat, how I like to see it as a show plant. Grafted plants generally grow more open and don't stay flat. Although I propagate M.Saboae by grafting, I keep it on a short stock which doesn't show too much.

Stuart

[Tina]

Lovely plant, looks like its going to break that pot soon.

[Ali Baba]

Nice plant, is it grafted?

Regards,

No it’s on its own roots

[Ali Baba]

Lovely plant, looks like its going to break that pot soon.

Yes you are right it will be going up a pot size this year ! All my plants are grown on the hard side, mostly because I don’t have enough time to fuss over them...

[David Neville]

This is such a beautiful species, and I am always happy to be reminded of the account in the US Journal of its discovery by Kitty Sabo and her husband, US enthusiasts who were travelling in the state of Sonora in northern Mexico many decades ago. They discovered it by accident, their gaze attracted only by the crocus-like pink flowers arising apparently from the ground. The contractile stems of this species are almost sunken in the ground for much of the year in its barren Mexican habitat.

[ralphrmartin]

A comment just to wind Stuart up : did you know that this is now Cochemiea saboae, according to DNA evidence?