Mammillaria painteri forma mostruosa
(Syn: Mammillaria crinita ssp. crinita "mostruosa")

Mammillaria painteri forma mostruosa
 

A fruit

Description: Usually this M crinita foma mostruosa is offered with the incorrect name of M. painteri (monstrous form). It is a well known cultivar characterized by very reduced or absent spines, free branching, and small pink flowers.

The flowers of plants grafted on O. compressa are not only very abundant but also reach a whole maturation and open to a splendid blossoming. In comparison the flowers of plants on their own roots and on different grafting stocks are smaller, imperfect, and usually fail to open completely.

Mammillaria crinita ssp. crinita "mostruosa" looks almost identical to Mammillaria cv. CATERPINCY.  We do not exclude that the two different named cultivars might be the same.

Grafted on Trichocereus

Rooted cutting

• Mammillaria painteri v. mostruosa

 
Pot 6x6 A plant grafted on Opuntia compressa. This grafting technique greatly enhances the production of flowers!
Mammillaria painteri forma mostruosa:
A) grafted on Opuntia compressa
B) grafted on Trichocereus
C) On its own roots
 

Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Mammillaria crinita complex  (This taxon has lots of synonyms (like most mammillaria), with several controversial varieties and subspecies):

• M. brevicrinita (M. crinita)
• M. glochidiata var. xiloensis (M. crinita)
• M. painterii forma mostruosa (M. crinita fa. mostruosa. )
• M. sheinvariana (M. crinita)