Mammillaria lenta 2

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:49 am

My flowers seem far shorter than Irwin's, but the plant is obviously not as large.

DaveW

cactuspic · Post by **cactuspic** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:38 pm

Neat plant Dave. I find the variation between plants within the species fascinating. Another interesting difference is your plant does not have a pink mid strip on any of the petals while mine has the stripe on some but not all of the petals...go figure.

I don't know about your plant, but this is one of my slower growing mams. It took a minor forever for the pups to flower.

Have a great New Year.

Irwin

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:52 am

Beautiful pastels colours and nice angle with well focused most parts of the cactus.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:21 am

A beautiful cactus Dave. I love the spiney hair wrapped around the body of the cactus

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:46 am

A lot of cacti grow but do not gain the amount of height you would expect Doug because they concertina at the base like a set of bellows folding, hence the denser spination just above the offsets on the plant.

DaveW

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:22 am

You know these cacti are really nice. Probably not hard to keep, they more than likely don't bark at night and you don't have to worry to much about anyone grabbing them up to look a them, well maybe only once.

Beautiful flowers there Dave.

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:50 am

Main advantage, unlike tomato plants in the greenhouse, is you don't have to water them twice a day. Also if you have got automatic window openers you can go away for two weeks in high summer without needing to water them. Not many other plants are that care free.

DaveW

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:49 pm

Nice Mamm there Dave!