Mammillaria cv. Cettina Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
This is one of the prettiest and showy monstrous Mammillaria. It has close woolly white proliferations and yellow bristles in the axils.
Origin and Habitat: Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)
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Description: Mammillaria cv. CettinaSN|13729]]SN|13729]] forms large, proliferating, white woolly stems with very short yellow bristles.
It shows an abnormal uncoordinated form of vegetative growth, with a multitude of condensed lateral proliferation, each areole gives origin to a new stem only a few centimeters across, and plant looks more like a strange furry animal or a marine creature than a cactus.
Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Mammillaria cultivars group
- Mammillaria cv. Blando I.Blando: Has very odd pectinated spines, that varies in number and density depending on clones.
- Mammillaria cv. Caterpincy: has very reduced bristly or absent spines. It offsets from the base to form a small cluster or mound. It is very similar to: Mammillaria crinita subs. painteri f. monstruosa (if not the same)
- Mammillaria cv. Cettina: It shows an abnormal uncoordinated form of vegetative growth, with a multitude of condensed lateral proliferation and plant looks more like a strange furry animal than a cactus.
- Mammillaria cv. Chiara Blando I.Blando: has extremely elongated areoles, 7-20 mm long and 3-5 mm broad, which are conspicuous, in relief, densely covered with dull white felt and few tiny white bristles.
- Mammillaria hybrid cv. Dolichothele x Un Pico: a supposed hybrid between a Dolichothele longimamma and Mammillaria spinosissima cv. Un Pico. It has orange and yellow central spines that are a thin, little flat, flexible but not hooked.
- Mammillaria hybrid cv. Toumeya x knippelianus: it is an improbable hybrid between a Toumeya papyracantha and Echinocereus knippelianus or more likely a monstrous form of Mammillaria. Central spines orange, flexible, flat with a bent tip.Radial spines glassy white, bristly.
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