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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.

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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.

All the information and photos in cactus art files are now available also in the new the Enciclopedia of Cacti. We hope you find this new site informative and useful.