How to tend a Mammillaria elongata
Also known as: Krainzia elongata (DC.) Doweld, Leptocladodia elongata (DC.) Buxb., Mammillaria echinata DC., Mammillaria caespitosa (Engelm.) A.Gray, Mammillaria caespitosa Pfeiff., Neomammillaria subcrocea (DC.) Y.Itô, Cactus anguineus (Otto) Kuntze, Cactus densus (Link & Otto) Kuntze, Cactus elongatus (DC.) Kuntze, Cactus intertextus (DC.) Kuntze, Cactus minimus (Rchb.) Kuntze, Cactus pulvilliger Kuntze, Cactus rufocroceus (Salm-Dyck) Kuntze, Cactus stella-aurata (Mart.) Kuntze, Cactus subcroceus (DC.) Kuntze, Cactus subechinatus (Salm-Dyck) Kuntze, Cactus tenuis (DC.) Kuntze, Chilita elongata (DC.) Orcutt, Leptocladia elongata (DC.) Buxb., Neomammillaria elongata (DC.) Britton & Rose, Mammillaria anguineea Otto, Echinocactus densus Steud., Mammillaria anguinea Otto ex Salm-Dyck, Mammillaria densa Link & Otto, Mammillaria intertexta DC., Mammillaria minima Rchb., Mammillaria rufocrocea Salm-Dyck, Mammillaria stella-aurata Mart. ex Zucc., Mammillaria subcrocea DC., Mammillaria subechinata Salm-Dyck, Mammillaria tenuis DC., Mammillaria elongata f. echinata (DC.) Schelle, Mammillaria elongata f. rufocrocea (Salm-Dyck) Schelle, Mammillaria elongata f. stella-aurata (Mart. ex Zucc.) Schelle, Mammillaria elongata f. subcrocea (DC.) Schelle, Mammillaria elongata f. tenuis (DC.) Schelle, Mammillaria elongata var. anguinea K.Schum., Mammillaria elongata var. densa (Link & Otto) Schelle, Mammillaria elongata var. echinata (DC.) K.Schum., Mammillaria elongata var. erecta Schelle, Mammillaria elongata var. intertexta (DC.) Salm-Dyck, Mammillaria elongata var. minima Schelle, Mammillaria elongata var. obscuriora Heinrich ex Backeb., Mammillaria elongata var. rufescens Salm-Dyck, Mammillaria elongata var. rufocrocea (Salm-Dyck) K.Schum., Mammillaria elongata var. schmollii Borg, Mammillaria elongata var. stella-aurata (Mart. ex Zucc.) K.Schum., Mammillaria elongata var. subcrocea (DC.) Salm-Dyck, Mammillaria elongata var. subechinata (Salm-Dyck) Schelle, Mammillaria elongata var. tenuis (DC.) K.Schum., Mammillaria stella-aurata var. gracilispina Salm-Dyck, Mammillaria subcrocea var. echinata (DC.) Y.Itô, Mammillaria tenuis var. media DC., Neomammillaria subcrocea var. echinata (DC.) Y.Itô
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Resistant to drought, water thoroughly when soil is dry, reduce water in summer and winter
Sunlight
Likes light, a short period of dormancy in summer and winter , put in places with bright scattered light
Soil
Peat and akadama mixed in 3:1 ratio
Fertilizer
Dilute fertilizers following instructions, apply once monthly in spring and autumn
Pruning
Remove dead and rotten part timely
About this plant
- Origin
- Mexico
- Category
- Cactaceae, Mammillaria
- Size
- Diameter ⥠5 cm, height ⥠5 cm
- Blooming period
- Succulent plants, sometimes flowers, light yellow flowers
- Flower colors
- Leaf color green, covered by thin soft yellow spines
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