The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Mammillaria erythrosperma is a small clustering pincushion cactus from Mexico that forms dense mounds of tubercles and abundant offsets. It is grown as a sun-loving, drought-tolerant container cactus that needs sharp drainage and little water.
Mammillaria erythrosperma, with no widely used English name, though all Mammillaria species can be called pincushion or nipple cacti, is a small cactus native only to Mexico. It belongs to the family Cactaceae.
Mammillaria erythrosperma is endemic only to the Mexican states of Guanajuato, Jalisco, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas.
Mammillaria bombycina · Mammillaria carmenae · Golden Star Cactus · Twin Spine Cactus · Old Lady Pincushion · Mammillaria laui · Mexican Pincushion · Mammillaria petterssonii · Feather Cactus · Mammillaria polythele · Cactus · Texas nipple cactus
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mammillaria erythrosperma by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
