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Flowers large 3-4cm in diameter, purplish pink, in summer, with long
narrow spreading
stigmata, showy, nearly as large as the plant bodies.
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Notes: M. boolii was once placed in the
segregate
genus Bartschella because of its fruit
anatomy and large pink flowers located at the top of the plant. The
fruit are red, thin-skinned and often break off from a basal
pore rather than falling whole (like in most Mammillaria).
Description:
Clumping plants with soft, green or grey-green
epidermis.
Stems up to 5cm wide, with prominent rounded
tubercles usually
depressed
globose to depressed
conical when growing in
habitat. While cultivated plant have (frequently)
oblong
offsetting stems.
Cultivation: This plant is somewhat difficult to cultivate. Needs good
drainage as it is
rot prone.
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