Mammillaria gasseriana

Mammillaria gasseriana in habitat......





Mammillaria gasseriana WTH 706
WTH 706 -  On a hill South of La Unión - Durango - Mexicó






Photograph in habitat by Wolter ten Hoeve - Assen - The Netherlands

Mammillaria gasseriana WH 126
WTH 126 - Penon Blanco, 1804m - Durango - Mexicó






Photograph in habitat by Walter Hellinx - Duffel - Belgium

Mammillaria gasseriana WH 114
WTH 114 - Villa Insurgentes, 2190m - Zacatecas - Mexicó






Photograph in habitat by Walter Hellinx - Duffel - Belgium






Photograph in habitat by Walter Hellinx - Duffel - Belgium

M. gasseriana Boed. in Zeitschr. Sukk. 3 : 75, with fig. 1927.
Solitary, bright green, covered with white spines, 4-5 cm. high, 3~4 cm. in diam.;
Tubercles in 31 and 21 spirals, cylindric, about 8 mm. long, and 3-4 mm. thick.
Areoles elliptic, with white wool, axils sparsely woolly.
Central spine 1, 5-6 mm. long, hooked black; radial spines 35-40, 3-5 ram. long, whitish, setaceous and interlacing.
Flowers about 15 mm. long, reddish white, the outer segments with dark salmon-coloured mid-stripe; stigmas 6, greenish.
Fruit 2 cm. long, red, appearing about 1 year after the flowers.
MEXICO: (Coahuila), from a ranch near Tacubaya; no specimen is known to have been preserved, and the illustration cited will serve as
type instead.
From "The Journal of the Mammillaria Society" - Vol.XIV n.4 - August 1974




Mammillaria gasseriana RS 571
RS 571 - km163, Route 40, before Cerro Bola, Coahuila, Mexico
Distribution seeds " U.K. Mammillaria society - 2009"
From "Ento" Ennio Toso collection - Savona







Mammillaria gasseriana RS 571
RS 571 - km163, Route 40, before Cerro Bola, Coahuila, Mexico
Distribution seeds " U.K. Mammillaria society - 2009"
From "Ento" Ennio Toso collection - Savona

Mammillaria gasseriana SB 447
SB 447 - El Palmito -  Durango - Mexico

Mammillaria gasseriana SB 1902
SB 1902 - West of Nazas, Durango, Mexico
From "Ento" Ennio Toso collection - Savona

Mammillaria gasseriana WTH 323
WTH 323 - South side of the Hills at La Cuchilla - Coahuila - Mexico
From "Ento" Ennio Toso collection - Savona

Mammillaria gasseriana
Torreon - Coahuila - Mexico
From "Cactoo" private collection

Mammillaria gasseriana
From "Giuse" Giuseppe Ruini collection - Rubiera - Italy