Leptocladia elongata cv. Kopper King
Leptocladia elongata cv. Kopper King
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Leptocladia elongata cv. Kopper King
Author
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Chinese genus
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Chinese name
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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.