Xerophyte

Habit

It is a small plant that make a large, flattish clump of stems clustering from the lower part.

Seeds

Light brown.

Description

Mammillaria decipiens subs. camptotricha cv. Bru, also known as Mammillaria camptotricha f. brevispina or cv. Kotoito-maru (in Japanese speech), is an odd cultivars characterized by 4 short, orange, spindle-like, spines that form a cross. It unique-looking spination makes it on the the best mammillaria cultivars. The flowers are tiny yellowish-white but otherwise look like mammillaria flowers.

Roots

Very large, tuberose.

Tubercles

Green, soft, flabby, cylindrical to obtuse about 2 cm long. Without latex. The axil is sparsely hairy with a few bristles.

Flowers

Funnel-form, delicately scented, mall, white, deeply set in the tubercles, to about 1.5-1.8 cm long and wide. The outer petals of the flowers are greenish.

Spines

Usually 4 (o more) not differentiated as central and radials, short, fat, spindel-like, at first yellowish white then straw yellow.

Stem

Individual stems bout 4-7 cm in diameter, up to 10 cm tall, broadly globose to club shaped, depressed, deep-green.

Fruits

Cylindrical, pale pink to greenish.