Accession Data:
Mammillaria bombycina Quehl
subg. Mammillaria sect. Cylindricothelae series Bombycinae
- Common Name: Silken Pincushion
- Family: Cactaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Mexico - Aguascalientes and Jalisco
- Habitat: Altitude 2340 to 2500 m.
- Description: Plants often forming clumps to 80 cm (31 in) wide. Stems depressed globose to club shaped, bright green, 7 - 14 cm (2.8 - 5.5 in) high, 5 - 6 cm (2 - 2.4 in) in diameter. Tubercules conical to cylindrical, firm. Axil with dense wool and bristles. Radial spines 30 - 64, stiff, thin, needle-like, glassy white, to yellowish white to 8 mm (0.3 in) long. Central spines 3 - 8, yellow with dark tips, or reddish brown, lowermost one hooked and to 20 mm (0.8 in) long, others straight and to 11 mm (0.4 in) long. Flowers funnelform, pink to white, to 15 mm (0.6 in) long and in diameter. Fruit pale pinkish green. Seeds dark reddish brown, with partially lateral hilum.
- USDA Zone: 10
Accession Data:
- Accession # 199200053
- Source: Andy Indars
- Accession Date: 12-31-1992
- Bench: 2211 - XER:Chihuahuan-Tehuacan Deserts
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 05-02-2024
- Restrictions:
- IUCN Red List: Species Vulnerable or Habitat Critically Threatened
- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
- IUCN Red List: Species Vulnerable or Habitat Critically Threatened
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: core eudicots
- Order: Caryophyllales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Cactaceae
- SubFamily: Cactoideae
- Tribe: Cacteae
- SubTribe:
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References (internal):
- EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
- Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
- Bee Pollination (melittophily)
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Northeast / Mexico Southwest
References (external):
- Mammillaria Forum
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, September 29, 2017.
- Mammillaria bombycina at IUCN Redlist. Last accessed on Friday, September 29, 2017.
data regenerated on Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:24:49 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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- Echinocereinae: Cephalocereus senilis
- Echinocereinae: Echinocereus cinerascens W/C
- Echinocereinae: Echinocereus nivosus
- Echinocereinae: Echinocereus pentalophus
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- Echinocereinae: Lophocereus sp.
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- Echinocereinae: Stenocereus humilis
- Echinocereinae: Stenocereus stellatus
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Subfamily Maihuenioideae
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Tribe Austrocylindropuntieae
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Tribe Cylindropuntieae
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Tribe Pereskieae
W/C = Wild Collected
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= accession added within past 90 days