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Note: These photos were taken the first week of November, 2022.
Mammillaria and Family
Cochemiea poselgeri -
Also
known as Mammillaria
poselgeri,
is a cereus like cactus, forming large clumps with numerous
stems from a central tuberous rootstock, spreading or sometimes pendent from
rocks or creeping over the ground. It was the first Cochemiea to
be discovered and described, and is a very ornamental species with incredible
scarlet flowers. Really it doesn't looks look a Mammillaria at all. Baja
California Norte and Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in a 4 1/2" pot. 1 in stock @ $15.00.
Cochemiea poselgeri -
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in a 3 1/2" pot. 1 in
stock @ $13.00.
Cochemiea setispina -
Sometime found as Cochemies pondii ssp. setispina. The flowers are very showy,
long, red, narrowly tubular with bilateral symmetry and fit for hummingbird pollination. San Borgia, Baja California, Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants.
Growing in
3 1/2" pots. 2 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Coryphantha cornifera ssp. echinus -
Mostly solitary globular cactus or branched with age, forming large clumps up to
80 cm in diameter, at low elevation in Brewster County, Texas. This species is
one of those Coryphanthas which pass a purely radial-spined youth stage in which
they are already floriferous. The name Coryphantha
pectinata (Engelmann)
Britton & Rose was used for plants lacking central spines, but after several
years the typical 3-4 central spines appear, giving the plant its sea urchin
appearance. USA (western Texas), Mexico (Coahuila, Chihuahua).
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 4 1/2" pot. 1 in
stock @ $18.00.
SOLD
Coryphantha cornifera ssp.
echinus -
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 2.75" pots. 9 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Coryphantha elephantidens -
Coryphantha elephantidens is
a large, depressed-globular cactus, simple or occasionally clumping and
group-forming. C.
elephantidens usually
has pink flowers. This species comprises three
subspecies - the typical form, subsp. bumamma (Ehrenb.)
Dicht & A.Lüthy, and subsp. greenwoodii (Bravo)
Dicht & A.Lüthy. The epithet 'elephantidens' comes
from Latin and means 'elephant
tooth' and
describes the fang-like spines of this species. Mexico.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 2.75" pots. 17 in stock @ $10.00 each.
Coryphantha glassii -
The word glassii is an epithet in honor of Charles E. Glass am American cactus
specialist and horiculturist.
Endemic to Guanajuato and San
Luis Potosí in Mexico.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant.
Growing in a 3 1/2" pot. 1 in stock @ $15.00.
SOLD
Coryphantha macromeris
-
Plants profusely branched with long projecting spines, ultimately forming low
mats or hemispheric mounds.
The blooms are large bright lavender to magenta over long periods from March to
early September.
New Mexico, Texas and Mexico.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant.
Growing in 2.75" pots. 4 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Coryphantha ramillosa -
Is
a small cactus species, appearing bristly or shaggy grey, brown, or whitish. Flowers
from
young areoles near the apex, funnel shaped, color varying from pale pink to
deep rose purple with darker mid-stripe, glossy. USA,
Texas
- Mexico.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant.
Growing in in a 6"
pot. 1 in stock @ $25.00.
Coryphantha ramillosa -
Is
a small cactus species, appearing bristly or shaggy grey, brown, or whitish. Flowers
from
young areoles near the apex, funnel shaped, color varying from pale pink to
deep rose purple with darker mid-stripe, glossy. USA, Texas - Mexico.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant.
Growing in 2.75"
pots. $ in stock @ $13.00 each.
Coryphantha retusa -
It's a small greyish-green cactus thickly covered with tawny wool. Many of the
yellowish-brown spines are curved backward. The flowers are deep yellow and
borne from the center of the plant. Mexico. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 3 in stock @
$15.00 each.
Coryphantha vivipara -
Sometime listed as
Escobaria vivipara.
It's
a small solitary or clumping cactus. Some varieties form colonies of over 200
stems. This species is the most widespread, abundant and variable member of the
genus. It is densely covered in a mat of star-shaped arrays of spines. Flowers
pale rose-pink to reddish pink or magenta (or rarely yellow or green) ,
sometimes with darker mid-stripes, sometimes shading to white or pale green.
Canada, USA and Mexico.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 3
1/2" pots. 7 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Coryphantha vivipara X Escobaria sneedii - Looks like
a large headed Escobaria with a slit pinkish-brown color to the spines tips.
Clumping with pink flowers.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 2.75"pots. 9 in stock a @ $13.00 each.
Coryphantha sunderlandii -
Clumping with tiny star spines. Sometime no spines at all. Pink flowers.
Found on one ranch in South Texas by Mr. Sunderland.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 2.75"
pots. 10 in stock @ $15.00 each.
Epithelantha micromeris -
This is a larger plant with a scar on the smaller stem. Do not have a ssp. name
for this one. They
are miniature globose cactus, erect, unbranched or in small clumps, not
deep-seated in substrate, appearing ashy grey and relatively rough in general
aspect. Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas into Mexico. Growing in a 4 1/2" pot.
1 @ $35.00.
Epithelanth micromeri
- Do not have a ssp. name for these. They
are miniature globose cactus, erect, unbranched or in small clumps, not
deep-seated in substrate, appearing ashy grey and relatively rough in general
aspect. Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas into Mexico. Growing in 2.75" pots. 6
in stock @ $13.00 each.
Escobaria chihuahuensis ssp. henricksonii - Clustering
stems with
pink flowers.
Mexico.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 2.75" pots. 6 in
stock @ $13.00 each.
Escobaria hesteri 'black spine form' -
Sometimes listed as Coryphantha hesteri. It is an attractive and well worth
cultivating dwarf plant; it starts flowering from an early age and blooms from
spring until late summer, with nice large, deep pink blooms. In the resting
period it will not be damaged by some frost. Brewster County, Texas, USA.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 2.75" pots. 4 @ $10.00 each.
Escobaria hesteri 'white spine form' -
Sometime listed as Coryphantha heateri.
It's
a dwarf cactus will offsetting to form
clusters with age. Flowers near the top of the stems, gorgeous
deep rose-purple to magenta with a paler throat. Southwestern Texas.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant.
Growing in 2.75"pots. 2 in stock @ $10.00 each.
Escobaria minima -
This tiny cactus with its thick whitish spines and attractive pink flowers
(larger than the plant itself), it is highly prized among collectors.
Brewster County, Texas.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 2.75 pots. 26 in
stock @ $15.00 each.
Escobaria sneedii ssp.
leei - Grows
in dense clusters with as many as 100 or more stems in a clump.
This ssp.
leei differs
from other Escobaria in
densely clumping habit.
The wild
populations intergrades
with other forms of E. sneedii in the Guadalupe Mountains. This is apparently a variety
of the species in which juvenile spination is
retained throughout the life of the plant. This species is closely related to E.
sneedii var. sneedii from which it differs by having deflexed spines, rather
than spreading ones,
brownish - pink flowers as opposed to rose-magenta ones, and
seeds. USA, New Mexico, Eddy County, Guadalupe Mountains.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 2.75" pots.
0 in stock @ $18.00 each.
SOLD OUT
Mammillaria bocasana
monstrose 'Fred' - This monstrose can also make crested stems. Spineless green
blobs. Depends on what time of the year they can have white, pink and red
growing tips. All growing on there own roots. Flowers are cream color and can
make red seed pods. Nursery origin.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 3 1/2" pots.
4 in stock @ $20.00 each.
Mammillaria candida rosea - Also found as Mammilloydia candida. The newer spines will have a reddish-pink coloring then turn white
as the new spine grow in. Nice large heads that make a nice clumping plant. Mexico. Growing in
a 6" pot. 1 in stock @ $20.00. SOLD
Mammillaria candida rosea - Also found as Mammilloydia candida. The newer spines will have a reddish-pink coloring then turn white
as the new spine grow in. Nice large heads that make a nice clumping plant. Mexico. Growing in
a 3 1/2" pots. 3 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Mammillaria compressa ssp. centralifera -
It distinguishes for the presence of long central spines, usually one, sometimes
two, and for the greater amount of axillary wool. Bright purple-pink
flowers. These are offsets
from one of our an old crested plant so these may make a crest? Mexico. Growing in 3 1/2" pots.
25 @ $13.00 each.
Mammillaria elongata minina monstrose #1 - This monstrose form has stems
that are under a half inch with tiny burst of monstrose spines, cream colored
flowers. They will make red monstrose growths. Nursery origin.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 2.75"
pots. 12 in stock $13.00 each.
Mammillaria geminispina ssp. nobilis -
This plant is easily recognized for its long white spines that cover the new
growth. It will continue to put on more
and more heads, as well as more white cotton topping. The heads form mounds that
seem stacked on top of each other.
Flowers are
pinkish to carmine red. Mexico.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in a 4 1/2" pot.
0 in stock @ $30.00.
SOLD
Mammillaria glassii 'Dulces Nonbres' -
Field number: L 1537 track from Dulces Nombres over Santa Engracia, Tamaulipas,
Mexico. It is a sweet little mat forming plant, that offsets heavily and
forms a beautiful low white cushion. Flowers are pink. Propagated
from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 3
1/2" pots. 5 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Mammillaria hahniana ssp. hahniana - Very handsome variant of the species. Will
make nice clumps of hairy heads. Violet flowers. Sometimes called the "Old Lady
Cactus". Mexico.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 4 in stock @ $15.00 each.
Mammillaria hahniana ssp. hahniana - Very handsome variant of the species. Will
make nice clumps of hairy heads. Violet flowers. Sometimes called the "Old Lady
Cactus". Mexico.
Propagated from a very old large collection plant. Growing in 2.75" pots. 6 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Mammillaria herrerae ssp. herrerae
- It is small growing cactus that look like a little golf
ball. It usually stays solitary,
or occasionally clusters from the base. Stems are globose or slightly elongated
as it ages. Flower are quite large for a Mammillaria, pale pink to red-violet. Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in
2.75" pots. 6 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Mammillaria longimamma ssp. uberiformis -
Clustering very young and forming dense clumps. No Central spine for the var. uberiformis.
Flowers large bright yellow. Thick taproots, larger in upper
portion. Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 8 in stock @ $15.00 each.
Mammillaria magnifica -
Is
a fine but poorly known taxon that form clumps of tall column bristling with
yellowish brown, hooked central spines. Flowers are rose-purple flowers
circling the crown of the plant. There are several forms known, some with gold
spines, some with red to black spines. The large stem will grow towards the sun,
changing direction in just a few weeks if the plant is turned. Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing
in a 3 1/2" pot. 1 in stock @ $15.00.
Mammillaria matudae
- Is
a columnar cactus that offsets basally to form wide clusters in time. The stem
is quite tidy in youth and tends to recline as it elongates giving the old plant
a characteristic sprawling habit. Each head is surrounded by a complete ring,
2-3 flowers thick, of star like magenta flowers usually just 2-5 cm forming
rings of blooms near the growing tip. There are ample variations among spines color.
Mexico. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 5 in stock @ $15.00
each.
Mammillaria
mazatlanensi
- Is a cylindrical cactus, with reddish brown spines and large bright purple
flowers with green stigmas. Often forming broad clumps with many heads.
Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 3
1/2" pot. 1 in stock @ $13.00.
SOLD
Mammillaria
mazatlanensi
- Is a cylindrical cactus, with reddish brown spines and large bright purple
flowers with green stigmas. Often forming broad clumps with many heads.
Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 2.75" pots.
1 in stock @ $10.00 each.
Mammillaria microthele -
Also found as Mammillaria formosa subs. microthele.
Is a low-growing flattened plants, clumping with tight, short white spines which
forms low, many-headed, mounds in time. Flowers are pure white to very light
pink. Mexico. Growing in 2.75" pots. 3 in stock @ $15.00 each.
Mammillaria multidigitata -
Mammillaria multidigitata is endemic to San Pedro
Nolasco Island in Mexico, where it grows on steep slopes. From spring to early
summer it sprouts white to cream colored flowers with yellow-green stigma,
orange pollen and reddish-orange seed pots.
Propagated from one of our old large collection plants. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 6 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Mammillaria petterssonii lg. - Single head will
cluster with age. Long golden spines setting on a white spine woolly covering.
Flowers pink. Mexico. Growing in a 6" pot. 1 in stock @ $20.00
Mammillaria plumosa
#1 JJ
lg. - This is the larger stem form of Mammaillaria plumosa. Sometime called the
'Feather Cactus'. Very soft touchable spines. They make nice feathery clusters. Will have pinkish flowers thought
out the fall and winter. Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in
6"pots. 4 in stock @ $30.00 each.
Mammillaria plumosa #1 JJ
- This is the larger stem form of Mammaillaria plumosa. Sometime called the
'Feather Cactus'. Very soft touchable spines. They make nice feathery clusters. Will have pinkish flowers thought
out the fall and winter. Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in
3 1/2" pots. 4 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Mammillaria pottsii -
Plants more or less clumping branching basally. Black spines on a white
spine back ground. Flowers are brownish red, deep red, or rusty-red, or
reddish-purple.
USA, Texas and Mexico. Propagated
from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 2.75"
pots. 2 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Mammillaria pringlei #1 -
Sometimes
found as
Mammillaria
rhodantha subs.
pringlei. Is
one of several yellow- or golden/amber-spined variants of Mammillaria
rhodantha.
Small deep red flowers. Growing in a 4 1/2"
pot. 1 @ $18.00.
Mammillaria pringlei #2 -
Sometimes
found as
Mammillaria
rhodantha subs.
pringlei. Is
one of several yellow- or golden/amber-spined variants of Mammillaria
rhodantha.
Small deep red flowers. Growing in a 4 1/2" pot. 1 @ $18.00.
Mammillaria proliflera ssp. roseiflora lg - Clump forming. All white spines, no
hooked spines. Flowers bright pink and red seed pods. Make fewer red seed pods
as the ssp. texana. Un-know origin.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 2 in stock @ $15.00
each.
Mammillaria proliflera ssp. roseiflora - Clump forming. All white spines, no
hooked spines. Flowers bright pink and red seed pods. Make fewer red seed pods
as the ssp. texana. Un-know origin.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 2.75" pots. 10 in stock @ $13.00
each.
Mammillaria prolifera ssp. texana - Flowering in the spring. They
grow in Tamaulipan thorn scrub, oak-juniper woodlands, gravel, limestone
crevices, or litter beneath vegetation, cliffs, hills, valleys and plains. The
red seed pods will come with the plants if present. USA, Texas and Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 2.75" pots.
0 in stock @ $10.00 each. SOLD OUT
Mammillaria rekoi ssp. leptacantha -
Slowly
clustering. Flowers purple, generally with darker midribs. Finely bristly,
needle-like, white to golden yellow 4-6, much stouter than the radials, yellow,
amber or brown, sometimes twisted. Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 2.75" pots. 7 in stock @
$10.00 each.
Mammillaria sartorii - Clumping with thick black spines. Bright pink flowers.
Mexico.
Propagated from one of our old large collection plants. Growing in 3 1/2" pots.
5 in stock @ $15.00 each.
Mammillaria schiedeana -
Is
a slow growing attractive clumping cactus, with short, closely interwoven, hairy
spines with a soft in texture. White to cream-coloured flowers. Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing
in 2.75" pots. 0 in stock @ $10.00 each. SOLD
OUT
Mammillaria
spinosissima ssp pilcayensis -
Stems can grow up to 50 cm long. Central and radial spines are all similar,
about 30-34, pale glassy yellow and 5-6 mm long. The plants are solitary or
sparsely branched from the base, with stems almost horizontal and threatening to
hang down, although they continue to flower prolifically. The flowers are
purple-pink. Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 2.75" pots. # in stock @ $10.00 each.
Mammillaria spinosissima 'Un Pico' -
This is a stable genetic mutation from a very variable spined species Mammillaria
spinosissima,
in which each areole only produces one spine, but some perfectly spineless
areoles are also present.
Mammillaria pilcayensis cv.
Un Pico is
an easy to grow cultivar, just as a classic cactus, don't requires any special
treatment, but need as much light as possible without burning the plant to
encourage the heaviest spine formation. It is a great starter plant for the
cactus grower, that readily builds up into a cluster of stems highlighted by
reddish spines, further decorated by rings of purple-pink blooms. Nursery
origin.
Propagated from one of our old large collection plants. Growing
in 2.75" pots. 1 in stock @ $13.00 each.
Mammillaria
surculosa -
It's a low-growing spreading cactus forming crowded mats of small
heads and relatively large, bright yellow,
lemon scented flowers.
Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in a 3 1/2" pot. 1 @ $15.00.
Mammillaria uncinata -
Fat, flat, bluish
dark-green with short hooked spines. Solitary or slowly offsetting cactus. Flowers
funnel-form,
yellowish or creamy white, with brownish mid-veins. Red seed pods. Mexico.
Growing in a 4 1/2 pot. 1 in stock @ $15.00.
SOLD
Mammillaria voburnensis sub. voburnensis - My
favorite! Blackish colored body with blackish red spines and white wool. Mexico.
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 3 1/2" pots.
0 in stock @ $15.00 each. SOLD OUT
Mammillaria ziilmanniana monstrose 'Wacky Fred'
- It does some wacky things!
Propagated from one of our very old large collection plants. Growing in 2.75" pots.
0 in stock @ $25.00 each. SOLD OUT
Plants For Sale at the J & J Cactus and Succulents Greenhouse only. Not for Mail Order.
Mammillaria petterssonii - Single head will
cluster with age. Long golden spines setting on a white spine woolly covering.
Flowers pink. Mexico. Growing in 6" pots. 2 in stock @ $20.00 each.
Mammillaria spinosissima 'Un Pico'
monstrose crest -
Nice small monstrose/crested form of Mammillaria spinosissima 'Un Pico'.
Flowers purple-pink. Nursery
origin.
Propagated from one of our old large collection plants. Growing in a nice 6"x4" pot. 1 in stock @ $65.00.
SOLD
Mammillaria sp. - Large single plant with long black
central spines that are backed with white spines and wool. I have not yet seen
it bloom. Needs to be repotted. Growing in a nice 6"x4" pot. 1 in stock @
$60.00.