Xerophyte

Habit

Plants usually solitary (unless damaged).

Central Spines

Rather long, 2 (occasionally 4), needle-like, straight, pinkish-grey to dark-grey cwith blackish tips, to 15 mm long, lower ones longest.

Seeds

Brown.

Description

Mammillaria amajacensisSN|23727]]SN|23727]] is a solitary cactus with small pinkish flowers in a ring around the sides of the stem. It is covered by crowded tubercles bearing 2 (or 4) rather long spines and abundant wool in their axils, so that the tubercles are almost completely covered.

Axils

Densely woolly, especially near the apex and in the flowering zone.

Tubercles

Prominent, conical, dark blue green, without latex.

Flowers

Funnelform, in a ring around the sides at the top of the stem, pinkish cream with darker midveins. These appear to vary slightly, some plants have pink flowers while other have rather lighter flower with a clearer distinction between the darker midstripe and the rest of the petal.

Stem

Flattened-globose to short cylindrical but not apically depressed, dark-green and woolly at the top, 9-10 cm tall and broad.

Radial Spines

Absent.

Fruits

Borne in a circle near the middle of the plant, oblong, red.