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Endangered
Cultivar
Primary
Accepted
Mammillaria cv. Fred Large Head Type
Mammillaria cv. Fred Large Head Type
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Mammillaria cv. Fred Large Head Type
Author
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Chinese genus
乳突球属
Chinese name
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DescriptionEdit description
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!