mammillaria tezontle

plants offered by "the UK reference collection"...
these are the firs flowers....
thank you tam....

Gald you got the plants Ok. The seed for your plants came from Kohres. Hunt places, and the Fitz-Maurice's now agreed, this has a dwarf form of crinita leucantha.



This is ML 690, seed from Cactus Heaven, sown 30-1-08 and germinated 7-2-08.
The Fitz-Maurice's under took a population study of this form and the they determined the life cycle to be about 4 years in habitat, hence the need to flower early.

These plants are very similar to ML 138, moeller-valdeziana, which Hunt, again places under crinita leucantha.



This is the Fitz-Maurice's collection, WAF 1983. These plants have died, put I was able to save some seed.

Interesting that the Fitzes put the lifecyle in habitat at 4 years. My oldest one of this form is ML138 grown from seed in 2001, as moeller-valdeziana. My oldest tezontle is a plant I bought in 2005, so it must be at least 6 years old now. I hope they don't give up too soon.