Mammillaria blossfeldiana

M. blossfeldiana Boed. in Monatsschr. Deutsch. Kakt. Ges. 3:209. 1931.
Mostly simple, globose; (sap watery); axils sparsely woolly, without bristles.
Central spines 4, the 3 upper like the radials, the lower porrect hooked, 10mm. long, dark brown to black; radial spines about (l5-) 20, 5-7 mm. long, yellowish, tipped darker. Flowers 20mm. in diameter, the perianth-segments whitish; with rose-carmine stripe; stigmas (5-) 6 (-9), green (to 10mm. long). Fruit clavate, yellow (orange-red); seeds black, pitted.
Mexico: Baja California, lat. 28½°N, in hot dry desert on granite and gravelly soil, and often scarcely showing above the surface. Based on plants from Ritter and Blossfeld, the type not designated. In view of the locality data given, Gates (in Cact. Succ. Journ. Amer. 13:78. 1941) suggested that the plants furnished by Ritter were in fact the var. shurliana. The typical variety (i.e. var. blossfeldiana) was collected by Gates himself and supplied to Blossfeld.
The Journal of the Mammillaria Society - Vol. VIII n.1 February 1968



Mammillaria blossfeldiana

Mammillaria blossfeldiana Z 143
Z 143 - Punta Prieta - North Baja California - Mexico

Named "blossfeldiana" for Robert Blossfeld, a well-known German cactus nurseryman at Potsdam, in the period between the two world wars.
This species was probably collected by Howard E. Gates in 1928 and sent to Blossfeld who, in turn, passed it on to Boedeker who published the description in 1931.




Mammillaria blossfeldiana WM 2361
WM 2361 - Punta Maria - Baja California - Mexico

Mammillaria blossfeldiana
Seeds DeHerdt 601/91

Mammillaria blossfeldiana SB 1486
SB 1486 - Mexicó : North Baja California (El Tomatil)
From "Gianca" Mannelli Giancarlo collection - Firenze

Mammillaria blossfeldiana SB 1487
SB 1487 -  Villa Jesus Maria, North Baja California, Mexico

Mammillaria blossfeldiana SB 1854
SB 1854 - Santa Rosallita - Baja California Sur - Mexico
Photography and plant from PVV1962 - Voznesensk - Ukraine






Mammillaria blossfeldiana SB 1854
SB 1854 - Santa Rosalillita - Baja California - Mexico

Mammillaria blossfeldiana WM 5620
WM 5620 - Mammillaria shurliana -  Punta Baja - Baja California - Mexico