DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES NOVA SINCE "THE MAMMILLARIA HANDBOOK"
No. 6. Mammillaria fuauxiana
Original reference:- C. Backeberg, Fuaux Herbarium Bulletin, Vol. 1 part 4, September, 1950, supplemented by flower data in Cactus, No. 33, page 86, 1952.
Body: Cylindrical and solitary until 30 cm. high and 8 cm. wide. Tubercles very small, bright green in colour. Axils with short greyish felt, and with abundant white wool in the flowering area.
Spines: 20 - 22 radials, white, very thin, 2 - 5 mm. long. . Centrals straight two in number, one directed upwards and one downwards, 5 mm. long,, white with red-brown tip.
Flowers: Funnelform, slender, about 7 mm. long and broad; dark wine-red in - colour. "The darkest of any Mammillaria known to me" (Curt Backeberg).
Stamens cream, stigma lobes white.
Fruit: Club shaped; orange red changing to pure red. Seeds bright brown.
Type Locality: Near Puente de Mescala, Guerrero, Mexico, on steep slopes in good soil. The species was discovered by Fritz Schwartz.
Notes : It resembles M. albilanata (wrongly united with M. martinezii Craig) in shape and habit. Both grow in Guerrero, M. fuauxiana near Puente de Mescala, and M. albilanata on higher mountains north of Chilpancingo.
M. fuauxiana differs from M. albilanata in being cylindrical until 12 inches high, and it is also less woolly.
It has become rather widely distributed in collections in Great Britain, and flowers more readily than many of the white-spined Mammillarias.
Mammillaria fuauxiana ROG 283
Chilpancingo / Petaquillas, Guerrero, Mexico
Mammillaria fuauxiana ROG 283
Chilpancingo / Petaquillas, Guerrero, Mexico
Mammillaria fuauxiana ROG 283
Chilpancingo / Petaquillas, Guerrero, Mexico
Mammillaria fuauxiana ROG 283
Chilpancingo / Petaquillas, Guerrero, Mexico
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