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PostSubject: mammillaria meyranii   mammillaria meyranii Icon_minitimeWed Dec 08, 2010 10:47 am

mammillaria meyranii is described with two central spines, why all pictures i have seen, present many more central spines?

this is my mammillaria meyranii ML 48

mammillaria meyranii 2579-m13



this plant is labelled ML 48 and come from an italian greenhose near reggio emilia.



chris davies one in an old post about meyranii

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and this is an old photo of hugo de cook on mammillaria.net

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PostSubject: Re: mammillaria meyranii   mammillaria meyranii Icon_minitimeWed Dec 08, 2010 5:56 pm

A very interesting question!

The photo of one of my plants was labelled originally as M. guerreronis Lau 1096, but after a lot of discussion it seemed closer to M. meyranii than anything else, despite its rather numerous central spines.

However.....take a look at this plant, M. meyranii Rep 969

mammillaria meyranii Pict1616

and a crop of this photo showing the head on the right....just abut clear enough to count centrals......

mammillaria meyranii Pict1617

On the larger head and the younger darker head, there are 4 cenral spines, but on the right hand head there are mostly just 2.

The only conclusion I can come to is that (assuming the experts ...Lacoste..Reppenhagen...Lau) are right in identifying the species, then the description is rather limited, and only some plants have 2 central spines, many plants have a lot more.

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