Mammillaria cv. Chiara Blando
Cactus & Co. Vol. IX, 2, 115, 2005
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Mammillaria cv. Chiara Blando
Author
I.Blando
Chinese genus
乳突球属
Chinese name
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DescriptionEdit description
Habit
This cultivars is easily grown into crowded clumps or mounds, but it does often have an irregular pattern of offsetting. Most plants will offset readily, and clumps can be produced in a few years.
Description
Mammillaria cv. Chiara BlandoSN|20723]]SN|16505]] (or " Blando Chiara ") is one of the most beautiful cultivars obtained by the cactus grower Ignazio Blando (Trapani, Sicily, Italy). This cultivar is an odd monstrous plant with narrow spineless areoles derived from the even more rare Mammillaria cv. Blando that was found in a batch of Mammillaria gueldelmanniana guirocobensis, obtained from seeds purchased from Khores (Germany).
Similar Species
A similar abnormal uncoordinated form of vegetative growth, is also seen in Mammillaria pectinifera f. monstruosaSN|16505]]SN|20723]].
Tubercles
Hatchet-shaped, laterally compressed, and often thinner the the above standing areoles.
Spines
Absent, or few, very thin, bristly, white, less than 5 mm long scattered along the areole.Flowers. Not seen.
Stem
Depressed-globose to somewhat elongated (depending on growing condition) 3-7 cm in diameter, green, with white wool in the centre, and also in the older areoles.
Areoles
Very distinctive, conspicuous, in relief, extremely elongated, 7-20 mm long and 3-5 mm broad, densely covered with dull white felt.