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Mammillaria wilcoxii Toumey ex K.Schum.식물/들꽃-선인장과(Cactaceae) 2024. 10. 11. 12:21
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Origin and Habitat: New Mexico, Arizona, USA and Sonora, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Altitude: 700-2300 m.
Habitat: It grows in a arid environment with hot summers and cold winters (often snow-covered) in association with other succulents like Mammillaria grahamiiSN|9189]]SN|9189]] and Coryphantha aggregataSN|7168]]SN|7168]].Synonyms:
- Mammillaria wrightii subs. wilcoxii (Toumey ex K.Schum.) D.R.Hunt
See all synonyms of Mammillaria wrightiiCommon Names include:
ENGLISH: Wilcox’s Pincushion, Wilcox’s Fishhook CactusDescription: Mammillaria wilcoxii is a solitary plant without a large underground base, often regarded as a western form of Mammillaria wrightiiSN|9411]]SN|9411]].
Stem: Depressed, rounded, nearly spherical to short-cylindrical, flabby in texture, green to dull-green, up to 12 cm in diameter, but often much smaller about 5-6 cm in diameter. Without latex.
Tubercule arrangement: 5-8 or 8-13
Tubercles: Cylindrical to conical slightly flattened 5-20 mm long, bases about 5 mm wide.
Axil: Naked.
Areoles: Like in the other Mammillaria the areoles are dimorphic, with a circular to oval spinous part with short wool on the tip of the tubercles and the floral portion in the axil.
Radial spine: 14 - 16(-22), thin, bristle-like, slender and straight, white with slighter brown tips or occasianally the wole spine light brown, to 8-15 mm long, widely spreading outward and interlocking.
Central spine: Usually only 1, but sometime up to 5, of which 1 to 3 hooked, 2 cm long, stronger than the radials, brown, paler below. Under a lens the spines shows a fine down-like pubescence.
Flower: Campanulate, pink, pale rose to vivid purple, or rarely white, to 35 mm long and 30-40 mm in diameter when fully expanded. Outer perianth segments 20 brownish-green linener pointed and fringed with white hairs. Tepals about 40 in 2 rows, long narrow, pointed, reflexed, often with darker midveins and cream-coloured margins; Filaments white to pink with orangish-yellow anthers; Style 5-9 lobed green;
Fruit: Greenish, greenish-purple or brownish, obovate, 18-25 mm long up to 15 mm in diameter.<br />
Flowering period in Cultivation (Europe): May-june.
Seed: Black or blackish brown pitted almost round, about 1,7 mm longMammillaria wilcoxii (llifle.com)
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