Mammillaria polythele subsp. obconella

Clustering, body elongate, to 12 cm wide and 30 cm high, without milky sap. Tubercles prominent, pyramidal. Axils densely white woolly. Central spines 4(-6), 1-3 cm long, yellowish-brown at first, later grey. Radial spines lacking. Flowers pink, 15 mm long and wide. Fruit red. Possibly a syno­nym of M. polythele Martius.

C Mexico

Source: Thompson, A, ; Forbes, S.; Spencer, R. (1997). Cactaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press. (as Mammillaria obconella)

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Caryophyllanae
order      Caryophyllales
family       Cactaceae
species        Mammillaria polythele