Mammillaria bonavitii

Mammillaria bonavitii - type locality Cerro Gordo, near Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico, Repp. 907.
Body: Solitary, globose, 45-80mm high and wide.
Tubercles: Conic, 12-14mm long x 7-8mm wide, yellow green, with watery sap.
Axils: With a little white wool. Central spines: 4-7, 7-18mm long, straight, pale brown to red brown to greyish lilac.
Radial spines: 15-18, 4-7mm long, bristle-like, smooth, straight, white. Flowers: 16-18mm long x 12-15mm wide, carmine.
Fruit and Seed not described.
Reppenhagen compares this species with M. rhodantha.
From "The Journal of the Mammillaria Society"  Vol. 29  n.2  May 1989


Mammillaria bonavitii REP 907
REP 907 - Cerro Gordo, near Tehuacan - Puebla - Mexico















Mammillaria bonavitii REP 907
REP 907 - Cerro Gordo, near Tehuacan - Puebla - Mexico
From "Ento" Ennio Toso collection - Savona

Mammillaria bonavitii REP 904
REP 904 - Hacienda Los Arcos, 2500m - Hidalgo - Mexico
Referred to Mammillaria rhodantha ssp. rhodantha