Xerophyte

Description

This strange Mammillaria makes a large low clusters of soft rubbery textured green and pink tipped stems, some only a few centimetres across.

Note

Sometime "Fred" revert to the type producing some normal shoots, spines or hairs, monstrose or crested flowers. Sometimes will have a normal "patch" and remain mostly monstrose. But all this very different forms are the same plant! They are epigenetic variation not genetic mutant!