Family: Cactaceae
Scientific Name: Mammillaria zeilmanniana
Common Name: Rose Pin Cushion Cactus
| Description | A free flowering cactus with purplish-red flowers. |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Cactus |
| Hardiness Zone | 9-10 |
| Sunlight | full sun |
| Moisture | dry out between watering. dry in the winter |
| Soil & Site | well drained |
| Growing Media | well drained |
| Temperature | average house |
| Flowers | reddish-violet, very floriferous, flowers at a very early age. |
| Leaves | white spines |
| Stems | spherical globular stems, clumping, overlapping |
| Roots | fibrous |
| Dimensions | clumps and has reached over 10 inches in my collection, 5-6 inches tall |
| Maintenance | very little |
| Propagation | seeds and divisions |
| Native Site | Guanajuato state, central Mexico |
| Misc Facts | syn: Neomammillaria zeilmanniana, Chilita zeilmanniana, Ebnerella zeilmannian |
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