Xerophyte

Description

This plant is very different from a normal Mammillaria duweiSN|8895]]SN|8895]], it reveal its true identity only when an occasional normal areole produces a tuft of white feathery spines. It is thought by some that it is nothing else than a monstrous root grafted upside down, in fact it produces easily adventitious roots in any part of its body. It forms large low clusters of hard, corky-textured creamy-brownish, greenish and pinkish fissured protuberances, some only a few centimetres across. The plant looks more like some non-cactus succulent or rocky material than a cactus. This cultivar shows many growing variations, with different crested and monstrous shapes.