Mammillaria from Botanic Garden 3

Number of posts : 87 Registration date : 2016-09-23

And the last one for today. Identified like Mammillaria crinita ssp. crinita that... (you guessed it)... I think it's wrong.

Mammillaria from Botanic Garden 3 Dsc_2212

Mammillaria from Botanic Garden 3 Dsc_2210

Mammillaria from Botanic Garden 3 Dsc_2211

Alcala de Henares Botanic Garden (Madrid), 9/12/16

Regards,

Number of posts : 339 Registration date : 2009-10-01

Difficult to say without flowers. It looks like M. guelzowiana, but then I would expect that the flower remains were bigger. Perhaps a form of M. bocasana?

Wolter.

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One thing for sure - the cultivation is awful. Personally I have found, outside Kew, cacti grown by botanic gardens are usually abnormal in growth & fearfully mislabelled. And even Kew had some poor stuff. Once, years ago, I visited the RHS gardens at Wisley. Their cactus house was a bit of a disaster area, mislabelling and overwatering . Hope things hsve improved since then.

Number of posts : 87 Registration date : 2016-09-23

Sorry for answering so late. I've forgotten these topics.

In any case. Thanks to both of you.

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