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Re: id please.

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Hi Chris

If memory serves, when this (Mam pico) first registered on my radar, it was rumoured to be a sport from M pilcayensis. It was one of those plants that appeared from nowhere in thousands. As I remember, it was a fast grower, but with a high mortality rate.
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I still find it hard to accept it as a spinossima due to the very long spine, unless it is a spinossima hybridised with something else. Or if it was a sport as Len says was the identification of the parent plant correct or was that mislabeled? The plants I know as pilcayensis are more like this:-

http://www.mammillarias.net/gallery/mam ... nsis&lg=uk

Un Pico also seems a bit variable in spination:-

http://www.mammillarias.net/gallery/sz/ ... cv_un_pico

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Patrick. I have a Mammalaria Spinossima but not as far as I know 'Un Pico'. It has brown ends to the spines, which are slightly hooked and quite long. It seems more like ssp spinossima than ssp pilayensis, which has short spines. It grows horizontally once it gets to about 10cms in height. I imagine it's normal growth is down the side of rocks and cliffs.
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