mammillaria

[mam-uh-lair-ee-uh]

noun

1. any of various cacti of the genus Mammillaria, including the pincushion cactus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mammillaria¹

< New Latin (1824); mammilla, -aria

Example Sentences

Varieties include Euphorbia, Cycas , Haworthia hybrids, Ariocarpus, Mammillaria, and South American cacti such as Copiapoa as well as crested and mutant forms of cactus and succulents.

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Prices ranged from twenty-three dollars, for a small Mammillaria, mound-like and spiky, to fourteen hundred dollars, for a rare, forty-year-old Euphorbia confinalis rhodesia, a bumpy Zimbabwean pillar sourced from a private collector.

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The list of plants sounds a little like characters from a Greek tragedy/summer horror flick: Euphorbia, cycads, Haworthia hybrids, Ariocarpus, Mammillaria and South American cactuses, including Copiapoa as well as crested and mutant forms of cactuses and succulents.

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Some of the latter—such as the Crown of Thorns and the Mammillaria—have small or infrequent flowers.

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Those with long-tubed flowers comprise the genera Melocactus, Mammillaria, Echinocactus, Cereus, Pilocereus, Echinopsis, Phyllocactus, Epiphyllum, &c.; while those with short-tubed flowers are Rhipsalis, Opuntia, Peireskia, and one or two of minor importance.

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