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The genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 Mammillaria is one of the largest in the cactus family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 (Cactaceae), with currently 171 known species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
 and varieties
Variety (biology)

Variety is a low-level taxonomic rank used in botanical nomenclature.In botanical nomenclature or biological nomenclature, variety is a low-level taxonomic rank below that of species and signifies members of different populations can interbreed easily, but not usually such that all traits will run true, and in fact usually will blend...
 recognized. Most of the mammillarias are native to Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
, but some come from the southwest USA, the Caribbean
Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
, Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
, Guatemala
Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
 and Honduras
Honduras

Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
.

The first was described by Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus was a Sweden botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern alpha taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology....
 as Cactus mammillaris in 1753, deriving name from Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 mammilla, "nipple
Nipple

In its most general form, a nipple is a structure from which a fluid emanates. More specifically, it is the projection on the breasts of a mammal by which breast milk is delivered to a mother's young....
", referring to the tubercle
Tubercle

A tubercle is generally a wart-like projection, but it has slightly different meaning depending on which family of plants or animals it is used to refer to....
s that are one of the plant's specific features.






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The genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 Mammillaria is one of the largest in the cactus family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 (Cactaceae), with currently 171 known species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
 and varieties
Variety (biology)

Variety is a low-level taxonomic rank used in botanical nomenclature.In botanical nomenclature or biological nomenclature, variety is a low-level taxonomic rank below that of species and signifies members of different populations can interbreed easily, but not usually such that all traits will run true, and in fact usually will blend...
 recognized. Most of the mammillarias are native to Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
, but some come from the southwest USA, the Caribbean
Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
, Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
, Guatemala
Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
 and Honduras
Honduras

Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
.

The first was described by Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus was a Sweden botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern alpha taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology....
 as Cactus mammillaris in 1753, deriving name from Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 mammilla, "nipple
Nipple

In its most general form, a nipple is a structure from which a fluid emanates. More specifically, it is the projection on the breasts of a mammal by which breast milk is delivered to a mother's young....
", referring to the tubercle
Tubercle

A tubercle is generally a wart-like projection, but it has slightly different meaning depending on which family of plants or animals it is used to refer to....
s that are one of the plant's specific features. In 1812, the cactus specialist Adrian Haworth
Adrian Hardy Haworth

Adrian Hardy Haworth was an English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist.He was the son of Benjamin Haworth of Haworth Hall. He was educated by tutors and steered towards a career in law, but had little interest in the profession and after inheriting the estate of his parents, devoted all his time to natural history....
 described the genus Mammillaria to contain this and related species. Numerous species are commonly known as nipple cactus, fishhook cactus
Fishhook cactus

Fishhook cactus is a common name for any hook-spined species of the genus Mammillaria. They are small cacti, usually growing up to 6-7 inches high, and are shaped similar to a barrel cactus....
 or pincushion though such terms may also be used for related taxa, namely Escobaria
Escobaria

Escobaria is a genus of low-growing cactus that range from the southernmost parts of central and western Canada through northern Mexico, with one species in Cuba....


Mammillarias have extremely variable spination from species to species, and attractive flowers, making them specifically attractive for cactus hobbyists. Most mammillarias plants are considered easy to cultivate, though some species are among the hardest cacti to grow. Several taxa are threatened with extinction at least in the wild, due to habitat destruction
Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered functionally unable to support the species originally present. In this process, plants and animals which previously used the site are displaced or destroyed, reducing biodiversity....
 and especially overcollecting for the pot plant trade. Cactus fanciers can assist conservation
Conservation biology

Conservation biology is the scientific study of the nature and status of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction....
 of these rare plants by choosing nursery-bred specimens (wild-collected ones are illegal to possess for the rarest species anyways). Besides helping to preserve rare plants, one can gain experience in growing and breeding cacti in general with nursery-bred rare mammillarias: several mammillarias are quite easy (for cacti) to grow from seeds. One such species, popular and widely available from nursery stock but Endangered in the wild, is Mammillaria zeilmanniana
Mammillaria zeilmanniana

Mammillaria zeilmanniana is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
.

Description

Mammillaria Celsiana
The distinctive feature of the genus is the specific development of an areole
Areole

Areoles are the distinctive feature of cactus, and identify them as a separate family from other succulent plants. Areoles give rise to spine s or, on certain cacti, small, detachable glochids which are an additional form of protection....
, that is split into two clearly separated parts, one occurring at the tubercle's apex
Apex

Apex may refer to:...
, the other at its base. The apex part is spine bearing, and the base part is always spineless, but usually bearing some bristles or wool. The base part of the areole bears the flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s and fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
s, and is a branching point. The apex part of the areole does not carry flowers, but in certain conditions can function as a branching point as well.

The plants are usually small, globose to elongated, the stems from 1 cm to 20 cm in diameter and from 1 cm to 40 cm tall, clearly tuberculate, solitary to clumping forming mounds of up to 100 heads and possess radial symmetry. Tubercles can be conical, cylindrical, pyramidal or round. The root
Root

In vascular plants, the root is the organ of a plant body that typically lies below the surface of the soil. This is not always the case, however, since a root can also be aerial root or aerating ....
s are fibrous, fleshy or tuberous. The flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s are funnel
Funnel

A funnel is a pipe with a wide, often conical mouth and a narrow stem. It is used to channel liquid or fine-grained substances into containers with a small opening....
-shaped and range from 7 mm to 40 mm and more in length and in diameter, from white and greenish to yellow, pink and red in color, often with a darker mid-stripe; the reddish hues are due to betalain
Betalain

Betalains are a class of red and yellow indole-derived Biological pigment found in plants of the Caryophyllales. They are most often noticeable in the petals of flowers, but may color the fruits, leaf, plant stem, and roots of plants that contain them....
 pigments as usual for Caryophyllales
Caryophyllales

Caryophyllales is an Order of flowering plants that includes the cactus, Dianthus caryophylluss, amaranths, ice plants, and most carnivorous plants....
. The fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
 is berry-like, club-shaped or elongated, usually red but sometimes white, yellow or green. Some species have the fruit embedded into the plant body. The seeds
SEEDS

SEEDS is a voluntary organisation registered under the Societies Act of India.SEEDS was formed in 1994 as an informal group of students and pedagogues of the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, whose common interests brought them together and made them carry human habitat environment related exercises beyond set academic target...
 are black or brown, from 1 to 3 mm in size.

Systematics

The large and diverse genus Mammillaria has seen multiple attempts to subdivide the species in it into smaller groups within the genus or attempts to split it to multiple genera for better understanding of the plants' relationship. Early classifications were performed by Pfeiffer (1837), Salm-Dick (1845) and Engelmann (1856). The genus Mammillaria included members of some modern genera like Coryphantha and Ariocarpus
Ariocarpus

Ariocarpus is a genus of 8 species of succulent, subtropical plants of the Cactaceae family.The name comes from the ancient Greek "aria" and "carpos" because of the resemblance of the fruit of the two genus in acorn form....
 at that time. Classifications by Schumann (1898), Britton and Rose (1923), Berger (1929) Buxbaum (1951-56) and Moran (1953) followed, splitting the genus in parts and combining it back together again.

Later classification was performed by the cactus specialists Hunt, Reppenhagen and Luthy, with a lot of work focusing on searching the meanings and value of the original plant descriptions, synchronizing them with modern taxonomic
Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification. The word comes from the Greek language ', taxis and ', nomos .Taxonomies, or taxonomic schemes, are composed of taxonomic units known as taxa , or kinds of things that are arranged frequently in a hierarchical structure....
 requirements and studying the morphology of plants and seeds, as well as ecological aspects of the genus. These works helped to expand the understanding of Mammillaria taxa.

Currently the classification of Mammillaria is in a state where few newly discovered species are likely, though some new species may yet be found when the chaos of names created earlier by commercial plant collectors is sorted out. Many names that were introduced for plants barely differentiated by a shade of flower color or variation in spination were eliminated in attempt to make the use of names consistent with the rest of the botanical world. The number of taxa, which at one time numbered above 500, is now below 200. Some genera (Dolichothele, Mammillopsis, Krainzia and others) have been merged back into Mammillaria, and others like Coryphantha
Coryphantha

Coryphantha is a genus of small to middle-sized, globous to short-columnar cactus. The genus is found from Mexico to the South of the United States....
, Escobaria
Escobaria

Escobaria is a genus of low-growing cactus that range from the southernmost parts of central and western Canada through northern Mexico, with one species in Cuba....
 and Mammilloydia were confirmed as separate.

Intense studies of DNA
DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetics instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and some viruses....
 of the genus are being conducted, with preliminary results published for over a hundred taxa, and this promising approach might soon end the arguments. Based on DNA research results, the genus does not seem to be monophyletic and is likely to be split into two large genera, one of them possibly including certain species of other closely related genera like Coryphantha, Ortegocactus and Neolloydia
Neolloydia

Neolloydia is a genus of cactus. The genus is uniquely found in the dry scrubland areas of southern Texas and the Chihuahua Desert of Northeast Mexico....
.

Selected species

As noted above, some might not belong into this genus.
Mammilaria Gigantea
* Mammillaria albicoma
Mammillaria albicoma

Mammillaria albicoma is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria albiflora
    Mammillaria albiflora

    Mammillaria albiflora is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria albilanata
  • Mammillaria angelensis
  • Mammillaria anniana
    Mammillaria anniana

    Mammillaria anniana is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria aurilanata
    Mammillaria aurilanata

    Mammillaria aurilanata is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria backegergiana
  • Mammillaria barbata – Green Fishhook Cactus
  • Mammillaria baumii
  • Mammillaria berkiana
    Mammillaria berkiana

    Mammillaria berkiana is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria blossfeldiana
  • Mammillaria bocasana
    • Mammillaria bocasana f. multilanata – Powder-puff Pincushion
    • Mammillaria bocasana ssp. eschauzieri – Eschauzier's Pincushion
  • Mammillaria bombycina – Silken Pincushion
  • Mammillaria boolii
  • Mammillaria brachytrichion
    Mammillaria brachytrichion

    Mammillaria brachytrichion is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria candida
  • Mammillaria carmenae
  • Mammillaria carnea
  • Mammillaria celsiana
  • Mammillaria centricirrha
  • Mammillaria columbiana
  • Mammillaria compressa – Mother of Hundreds
  • Mammillaria crinita – Rose Pincushion Cactus
  • Mammillaria crocidata
  • Mammillaria crucigera
  • Mammillaria dawsonii
  • Mammillaria decipiens
  • Mammillaria dioica
    Mammillaria dioica

    Mammillaria dioica, the strawberry cactus, California fishhook cactus or fishhook cactus, is a cactus species of the genus Mammillaria found in California and northwestern Mexico, including Baja California and the state of Sonora....
     – Strawberry Cactus, California Fishhook Cactus
  • Mammillaria discolor
  • Mammillaria dixanthocentron
  • Mammillaria duwei
    Mammillaria duwei

    Mammillaria duwei is a member of the genus Mammillaria in the family Cactaceae. Mammillaria duwei is cactus Endemism to Mexico. Plants have dark green skin almost completely obscured by delicate white spines....
  • Mammillaria elongata – Ladyfinger Cactus
  • Mammillaria fraileana
  • Mammillaria gasseriana
    Mammillaria gasseriana

    Mammillaria gasseriana is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria geminispina – Twin-spined Cactus
    • Mammillaria geminispina f. cristate – Crested Twin-spined Cactus
  • Mammillaria gigantea
  • Mammillaria glassii
  • Mammillaria glochidiata
    Mammillaria glochidiata

    Mammillaria glochidiata was a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It was Endemism to Mexico. Its natural habitat was hot deserts....
     – extinct in the wild
    Extinct in the Wild

    Extinct in the Wild is a conservation status assigned to species or lower taxa, the only known living members of which are being kept in captivity or as a naturalized population outside its historic range....
  • Mammillaria goodridgei
    • Mammillaria goodridgei var. goodridgei
    • Mammillaria goodridgei var. rectispina
  • Mammillaria grahamii – Arizona Fishhook Cactus
    • Mammillaria grahamii var. oliviae – Pitahayita
  • Mammillaria grusonii
  • Mammillaria guelzowiana
    Mammillaria guelzowiana

    Mammillaria guelzowiana is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria guerreronis
  • Mammillaria guillauminiana
    Mammillaria guillauminiana

    Mammillaria guillauminiana was a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It was Endemism to Mexico. Its natural habitat was hot deserts....
     – extinct in the wild
    Extinct in the Wild

    Extinct in the Wild is a conservation status assigned to species or lower taxa, the only known living members of which are being kept in captivity or as a naturalized population outside its historic range....
  • Mammillaria haageana
  • Mammillaria hahniana – Old Lady Cactus
  • Mammillaria hernandezii
  • Mammillaria herrerae
    Mammillaria herrerae

    Mammillaria herrerae is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria heyderi
  • Mammillaria huitzilopochtli
  • Mammillaria humboldtii
  • Mammillaria johnstonii
  • Mammillaria karwinskiana – Royal Cross Mammillaria
  • Mammillaria klissingiana
  • Mammillaria kraehenbuehlii
  • Mammillaria krameri
  • Mammillaria lasiacantha – Golf-ball Pincushion Cactus
  • Mammillaria lauii
  • Mammillaria lenta
  • Mammillaria longiflora
  • Mammillaria longimamma – Finger Cactus
    • Mammillaria longimamma var. sphaerica – Longimamma Nipple Cactus
  • Mammillaria luethyi
    Mammillaria luethyi

    Mammillaria luethyi is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria magnifica
  • Mammillaria magnihahha
  • Mammillaria mainiae – Counterclockwise Pincushion
  • Mammillaria magnimamma – Mexican Pincushion
  • Mammillaria marcosii
    Mammillaria marcosii

    Mammillaria marcosii is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria marksiana – Cabeza de Viejo
  • Mammillaria mathildae
    Mammillaria mathildae

    Mammillaria mathildae is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria matudae
  • Mammillaria melaleuca
  • Mammillaria melanocentra
  • Mammillaria mercadensis
  • Mammillaria microhelia
    Mammillaria microhelia

    Mammillaria microhelia is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria microthele
    Mammillaria microthele

    Mammillaria microthele is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria muehlenpfordtii
  • Mammillaria multidigitata
  • Mammillaria mystax
  • Mammillaria neopalmeri
  • Mammillaria nivosa – Woolly Nipple Cactus
  • Mammillaria nunezii
  • Mammillaria obconella
  • Mammillaria painteri
    Mammillaria painteri

    Mammillaria painteri is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico...
  • Mammillaria parkinsonii – Owl's Eyes
  • Mammillaria pectinifera – Conchilinque
  • Mammillaria pennispinosa
    Mammillaria pennispinosa

    Mammillaria pennispinosa is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria perbella
  • Mammillaria perezdelarosae
  • Mammillaria petrophila
  • Mammillaria petterssonii
  • Mammillaria plumosa – Feather Cactus
  • Mammillaria polythele
    Mammillaria polythele

    Mammillaria polythele is a cactus in the genus Mammillaria....
  • Mammillaria pondii
  • Mammillaria poselgeri
  • Mammillaria pottsii – Rattail Cactus
  • Mammillaria prolifera – Texas Nipple Cactus
  • Mammillaria rekoi
  • Mammillaria rettigiana
    Mammillaria rettigiana

    Mammillaria rettigiana is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria rhodantha – Rainbow Pincushion
  • Mammillaria saboae
  • Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae
    Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae

    Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria sartorii
  • Mammillaria schiedeana
  • Mammillaria schumannii
  • Mammillaria schwarzii
    Mammillaria schwarzii

    Mammillaria schwarzii is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria sempervivi
  • Mammillaria senilis - a.k.a. Cochemia senilis, a.k.a. Mamillopsis senilis, a.k.a. Mamillopsis diguetii, a.k.a. Mammillaria diguetii
  • Mammillaria sheldonii – Sheldon's Pincushion
  • Mammillaria sonorensis
  • Mammillaria spinosissima – Red-headed Irishman
    • Mammillaria spinosissima ssp. pilcayensis – Bristle Brush Cactus
  • Mammillaria standleyi
  • Mammillaria stella-de-tacubaya
    Mammillaria stella-de-tacubaya

    Mammillaria stella-de-tacubaya is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria supertexta
  • Mammillaria surculosa
  • Mammillaria tetrancistra – California Pincushion
  • Mammillaria theresae
  • Mammillaria thornberi – Clustered Fishhook Pincushion
  • Mammillaria uncinata
  • Mammillaria vetula
  • Mammillaria voburnensis
  • Mammillaria weingartiana
    Mammillaria weingartiana

    Mammillaria weingartiana is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....
  • Mammillaria wiesingeri
  • Mammillaria winterae
  • Mammillaria wrightii – Brown Pincushion
    • Mammillaria wrightii ssp. wilcoxii – Wilcox's Nipple Cactus
  • Mammillaria zeilmanniana
    Mammillaria zeilmanniana

    Mammillaria zeilmanniana is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Flora of Mexico Its natural habitat is hot deserts....


External links

is the main source for the species list, and in turn sourced from several books which are . is the main up-to-date internet resource, with complete species and varieties description, distribution maps and a large selection of photographs of all Mammillaria species both in nature and cultivated. Mammillaria Page: Cultivation Data and Photographs