Mammillaria beneckei Ehrenb., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 2: 833 (1844) (syn: Cactus beneckei (C.Ehrenb.) Kuntze; Chilita colonensis (R.T.Craig) Buxb.; Chilita nelsonii (Britton & Rose) Orcutt; Dolichothele aylostera (Werderm.) Backeb.; Dolichothele balsasoides (R.T.Craig) Backeb.; Dolichothele beneckei (C.Ehrenb.) Backeb.; Dolichothele nelsonii (Britton & Rose) Backeb.; Mammillaria aylostera Werderm.; Mammillaria balsasensis Boed.; Mammillaria balsasoides R.T.Craig; Mammillaria barkeri Shurly; Mammillaria beneckei subsp. balsasoides (R.T.Craig) Lodé; Mammillaria beneckei var. multiceps Repp.; Mammillaria colonensis R.T.Craig; Mammillaria guiengolensis Bravo & T.MacDoug.; Mammillaria nelsonii (Britton & Rose) Boed.; Neomammillaria nelsonii Britton & Rose; Oehmea beneckei (C.Ehrenb.) Buxb.; Oehmea nelsonii (Britton & Rose) Buxb.);
. W. & Central Mexico as per POWO; . Common name: Benecke’s Nipple Cactus . Mammillaria ??? Looks so charming. Yes, looks like a Mammillaria, but could not find a match. Appears to be Mammilarria prolifera (Red) Mamillaria beneckei– sun stressed I could find similar looking ones on net as below:
Beautiful clump …, M beneckei .
MS/APRIL/2020/8 – ID of the Cactus. : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4) Photos taken during last Summer in Chennai.
My ID is Mammilaria beneckei.
What are the red projections (nipple like strictures/ Red chilli)/?
Please comment.
I guess the correct ID. These are seed pods (fruit) Thanks … for your quick response & con firming the ID and for the identification of the peculiar structure .
unid-TQ09: Is this some cultivar of Mammillaria lindsayi? Hmm…. doesn’t look close enough. I am not good at cacti, so can’t be sure too. Yes a cacti may be Mammillaria grahamii or its hybrid.
I had it in my garden. Very interesting in the sense, the spines were hooked and hence if it gets stuck on anything, it used to break off the mother plant. May be a kind of vegetative dispersal.
Mammillaria grahamii has pink flowers. Many Mammillaria species have been suggested for this plant, but did not agree well enough. Mammillaria beneckei Ehrenb.
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