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M. bocasana var. multilanata "splendens" forma cristata
This very beautiful plant has soft stems with  with an extreme abundance of short white woolly hairs and very short hooked central spines.
 

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Mammillaria bocasana multilanata "splendens" forma cristata Hort (This is an horticultural name)

Scientific Name: Mammillaria bocasana
First description by Poselger, Allg. Gartenz 21: 94 (1853)

Common Names include:  Powder Puff Cactus snowball cactus; powderpuff cactus; fishhooks.

Origin:   Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)

Cultivation: It is a  rapidly growing  species.  Water regularly in summer, but do not over-water (rot prone).  Use pot with good drainage and a very porous potting media. Keep dry in winter. Feed with a high potassium fertilizer in summer. It is quite frost resistant if kept dry, hardy as low as -5° C (some reports give it hardy to -12°C).  Outside full sun or afternoon shade, inside it needs bright light, and some direct sun. A big clump can be produced in a few years.
Propagation: Division of larger clumps (cuttings) in spring or summer.

Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of Mammillaria bocasana.

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