Xerophyte

Central Spines

Usually absent, sometimes 2, coppery-red with dark tips, 10 - 15 mm long.

Seeds

Brown.

Description

Mammillaria elongata cv. Kopper KingSN|11618]] is a succulent ground cover, forming with time a tight clumps of erect, ascending, prostrate or recumbent stems. This may be the most common Mammillaria to be found and occurs in more variations than any other Mammillaria species. It commonly comes in many colour and spine variations.Mammillaria elongata cv Kopper KingSN|11618]] This is a selected form with darck coppery-red spines. In all other characteristics, namely size and shape, flowers, fruits, roots etc. it is very similar to the standard species.

Roots

Fibrous.

Tubercles

Tubercles slender conical arranged in perfect spiral in a few rows. The axil is naked or nearly so.

Flowers

At the upper part of the plant, whitish or pale yellow. Perianth segments about 12, rather broad, obtuse or sometimes apiculate sometimes flushed pink or with pink midstripes, to 10 mm long and in diameter.

Blooming Season

Spring, but can bloom for a second time later in the year.

Stem

Elongated cylindrical, finger-like, 1 - 3 cm in diameter3-10 cm long.

Radial Spines

14 - 25 interlocking, arranged as a star, variable in number, white amber to coppery-red, the degree of brown colouring varying from plant to plant, slender, needle-like, more or less recurved 4-12 mm long.

Fruits

Pink, becoming red.

Areoles

Pubescent when young.