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    Mammillaria spp.

    "pincushion cactus"

    Some of the Mammillaria species we've encountered:

    Mammillaria campotricha

    Mammillaria compressa

    Mammillaria dasyacantha

    Mammillaria dioica

    Mammillaria elongata

    Mammillaria formosa

    Mammillaria grahamii

    Mammillaria hemispherica

    Mammillaria heyderi in horticulture

    Mammillaria heyderi in South Texas

    Mammillaria heyderi in Trans-Pecos Texas

    Mammillaria lasiacantha

    Mammillaria lenta

    Mammillaria magnimamma

    Mammillaria meiacantha

    Mammillaria pottsii

    Mammillaria sphaerica



    Additional Mammillarias that are presently lacking good IDs:

       Possibly a Mammillaria. Growing with an L. diffusa population in Queretaro.





       Mammillaria growing with an L. diffusa population near Higuerillas, in southern Queretaro.
    The one on the left is maybe a dixanthocentron but details are not sharp enough for certainty as two other Mexican species look sort of similar.





       Mammillaria growing with an L. williamsii population in Nuevo Leon.
    Might possibly be M. sanchez-mejorada but the details are not sharp enough for me to tell.





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