Xerophyte

Habit

In cultivation it is heavily clustering. (while in its natural environment it is often simple and rarely branching).

Central Spines

4, the upper 3 straight, the lowest hooked, slightly longer than the radials, reddish brown.

Seeds

Black.

Description

Mammillaria zeilmannianaSN|29283]]SN|8915]] (Mammillaria crinita f. zeilmannianaSN|8919]]SN|8919]]) is a popular cactus species with flowers typically carmine violet to purple-pink in colour.

Tubercles

Oval (Tubercle arrangement

Flowers

Up to 2 cm, creamy white, stigmas yellowish.

The white flowered sport (Mammillaria zeilmanniana f. albifloraSN|8915]]SN|29283]]) was produced in cultivation and not known to occur in the wild)

Blooming Season

The flowers can come at any time of the year.

Radial Spines

About 15-18, radiating, finely bristly or hairlike white, pubescent.

Fruits

Whitish green to pale pink.

Areoles

Woolly when young. The axil is naked.