Cacti (cacti care) M + . Woods . M . Woodsii Craig .

Motherland - Mexico (Guanajuato, Hacienda TaraLeas) . The stem is round, broad, dull, grass-green, to 8 cm in diameter, with age somewhat lengthened; areola only first with white wool; aksily withthick white hair, especially in the flowering as bristles have a length of 2.5 cm, on the nipple 25 - 30, thin, white spikes radial length 4 - 8 cm, and 2 (less than 4), the central spike finely subulate, purplish pink ends with black, the lower length of 8 - 16 cm, flowers to 1.5 cm in diameter, pink . Genus Mammillaria Haw . - Mammillaria - the most numerous racefamily Cactaceae . It has 350 species and 98 varieties . Rod is divided into 3 sections hydor-hilum - with watery juice, galaktos-chylos - with milky juice and hydro sub-chymos, whose sap is available only in the central vessels . Depending on the shape of the nipples, studs, and the stem, and flowers and other quantities, these attributes are divided into more sections nasub groups and subgroups. Appearance Mammillaria, their flowers, thorns and pubescence unusually varied . A distinctive feature of the genus is the lack of ribs instead of which stem of the plant is covered with papillae, and the special structure of the areola: it is divided into two parts - one carrying the spikes, is at the end of the papilla, other - generativeand autonomic - is in aksile (depression between papillae) . The flowers appear from last year's axilla around the top . After flowering, the fruit is formed immediately, it gradually emerges from the axilla . Plant of the genus Mammillaria culture mostly unpretentious . In the summer they need moisture and the sun (with shading from strong heat), in the winter - dry andcold content at + 8, + 10 ° . Some authors (Pazhout, etc. . . ) Identify groups Mammillaria the general background that creates a coating of stem pubescence . Very beautiful white (M . Bocasana, M . Kandnda, M . Plumosa and M . hahniana) and yellow Mamillaria (M . elongata, especially the kind of Stella-aurate, M . Pringles, M . goal-ziana and other) Pubescence which hairs, spines and bristles often completely covers the buds on the stem and looks very impressive. White Mamillaria grow in mountainous areas of central and northern Mexico on limestone and chalk cliffs . They no other cacti need light and sun and soil additives require lime .