Mammillaria tropica

Mammillaria tropica - type locality Tomatlan, Jalisco, Mexico, Repp. 677.
Body: Caespitose by dichotomous branching, 80- 100mm high x 60-80mm wide.
Tubercles: Pyramidal, 12-15mm long x 8-10mm wide, deep green, with milky, sap.
Axils: With yellowish wool.
Spines: 4, occasionally 5, 3-30mm long, thick acicular, lower longest, straight, smooth, yellowish, tipped brown. Flowers: Funnelform,
15mm long and wide, whitish.
Fruit: 15-20mm long x 8-11 mm wide, red.
Seeds: Red brown.
Reppenhagen compares this new species with M. knippeliana
From "The Journal of the Mammillaria Society" - Vol.29 n.4 - November 1989




Mammillaria tropica REP 677
REP 677 - Tomatlan, 80m - Jalisco - Mexico

Mammillaria tropica TL 752
TL 752 - Tomatlan - Jalisco - Mexico
Referred to Mammillaria karwinskiana ssp. collinsii
From "Ento" Ennio Toso collection - Savona

Mammillaria tropica REP 1385a
REP 1385a - El Coco/Tomatlan, 30m - Jalisco - Mexico

Mammillaria tropica H.O. 563

Mammillaria tropica
From "Ento" Ennio Toso collection - Savona