Mammillaria bocasana cv CATERPINCY

	Mammillaria (bocasana?) cv. CATERPINCY	CACTUS ART NURSERY Cultivation and Mail Sale of Cacti and Succulents.

Mammillaria "CATERPINCY " (Above in the square pot) and Mammillaria painteri forma mostruosa (Below in the round pot) is a monstrose, this are two old very similar cultivar with really weird shapes characterized by reduced or absent spines, free branching, and small pink flower.

Family: Cactaceae (Cactus Family)

Origin: Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)

Description: It is a free branching cultivar that forms large low clusters of soft textured green stems, some only a few centimeters across. Without or with very few thin hairy spines a the tubercles tip. The flowers are small and pink.

Mammillaria cv. CATERPINCY looks almost identical to Mammillaria crinita ssp. crinita "mostruosa" we do not exclude that the two different named cultivar are the same.

Picture of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars:

M. bocasana
M. bocasana forma cristata
M. bocasana var. multilanata
M. bocasana var. multilanata forma cristata
M. bocasana var. multilanata "splendens" forma cristata
M. bocasana cv. CATERPINCY
M. bocasana cv. FRED
M. bocasana cv. FRED (tuberculate)
M. bocasana cv. FRED forma cristata
M. bocasana "mostruosa"

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