Xerophyte

Habit

Clustering mat-forming.

Central Spines

Bright orange and yellow, flexible with a bent tip, but not hooked. They are also flat and not pungent.

Description

What is this plant?The first specimens of this unusual cactus was sold as an improbable but sticking hybrid between a Toumeya papyracanthaSN|13720]]SN|13720]] and Echinocereus knippelianusSN|1580]]SN|1580]]. However the plant is presumably a cross between a Mammillaria sp. with an unknown cactus or more likely a monstrous form of Mammillaria.

Roots

Tuberose, very juicy and pink.

Flowers

Pink in a ring around the crown.This plant is also very similar (but not the same) to Mammillaria cv. Dolichothele x Un Pico, actually this second species has more thin, straight and longer central spines, and very few thin white radial spines per areole. Furthermore the "Toumeya papyracanthaSN|13720]]SN|13720]] x knippelianus" hybrid has characteristic swollen pink roots very different from those of the "Dolichothele x Un Pico" hybrid.

Ribs

Vertical formed by a row of elongated tubercles.

Stem

4 to 5cm wide, up to 4 cm tall, flattened and soft.

Radial Spines

Glassy white, bristly.