Mammillaria saboae
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Mammillaria saboae
This is usually early for me but seems extra early flowering this year
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Re: Mammillaria saboae
Nice one (or should that be two?)
Endeavouring to grow Aylostera, Echinocereus, Echinopsis, Gymnocalycium, Matucana, Rebutia, and Sulcorebutia. Fallen out of love with Lithops and aggravated by Aeoniums.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs.
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Re: Mammillaria saboae
Not as unusually early as I thought, here it is last year on April 13th
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Re: Mammillaria saboae
Nice plant, is it grafted?
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Andrew
Interested in most genera of small to medium ‘globular’ cacti, large flowering Mammillaria, Epiphyllum, Trichocereus, Hildewintera, Cleistocactus etc, small Agaves, Lithops, Titanopsis, Faucaria etc, plus hybridising.
Interested in most genera of small to medium ‘globular’ cacti, large flowering Mammillaria, Epiphyllum, Trichocereus, Hildewintera, Cleistocactus etc, small Agaves, Lithops, Titanopsis, Faucaria etc, plus hybridising.
Re: Mammillaria saboae
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
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Re: Mammillaria saboae
Lovely plant, looks like its going to break that pot soon.
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varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
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Re: Mammillaria saboae
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.
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Re: Mammillaria saboae
A comment just to wind Stuart up : did you know that this is now Cochemiea saboae, according to DNA evidence?
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My Field Number Database is at https://www.fieldnos.bcss.org.uk