Mammillaria spinosissima
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Mammillaria spinosissima, Lem. Sts. cylindrical, reaching 1 ft. high and 2 ½ in. diam.: tubercles short, ovate-conic, somewhat tetragonal: radial spines 20-25, setiform, white, spreading; centrals 12-15, brownish red, stronger and twice the length of the radials. Mex. Var.sanguinea, Haage. St. somewhat clavate, rather shorter and stouter: radial spines 18-20, spreading, white; centrals 8, only a little longer, but thicker and bulbous at base, white with brownish base and dark brown tip, the young ones dark blood-red. Mex.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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