2 Crested Mamms

Joined : 07 May 2008 Posts : 601 Location : Melbourne

I guess its my lucky day. Smile

i went to Collectors Corner today and found this Mammillaria spinosissima cv 'Pico', it is starting to crest:

It was alongside some normal ones, good for $11. In a 4in pot. Interestingly it doesn't have any flower buds on the crested section. It should develop into a nice cristate specimen in a few years.
and they have many of these but this is an exceptional example of Mammillaria microhelia fma. cristata; a perfect line crest:

Subject: Re: 2 Crested Mamms Sat 5 Jul 2008 - 16:18

nice one, i should have had a better look yesterday Razz

Joined : 07 May 2008 Posts : 601 Location : Melbourne

You can't complain, look at that great Copiapoa Very Happy

Subject: Re: 2 Crested Mamms Sat 5 Jul 2008 - 16:54

Mammilicious!!!
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Joined : 14 May 2008 Posts : 458 Location : Corio. Victoria

Nice ones Lewis just hoping my little grafted mamm pushes out some crested pups one day as the parent is crested.

Didn't CC have a Mammillaria microhelia fma. cristata on ebay recently. Missed what it went for.
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Subject: Re: 2 Crested Mamms Sat 5 Jul 2008 - 18:41

nice plants lewis Wink

I love that place!

Joined : 07 May 2008 Posts : 601 Location : Melbourne

Thanks all Smile

Joined : 26 Apr 2008 Posts : 112 Location : brisbane

so how commomn is it for a normal cacti to start cesting from its main growing shoot? I got a Crested Cylyndropuntia (sp?) off trigonus i think it was a while back which just looks like a normal plant that has started to form a crest on the main growing shoot. Its actually got 3 flower buds on it which is cool

Joined : 07 May 2008 Posts : 601 Location : Melbourne

It is uncommon. Cresting is a random mutation, caused by the meristem (growth point) continuously dividing rather than growing in a more normal single point. There is actually nothing you can do to prevent or encourage a plant from starting to crest, it is a natural phenomenon. Cristate forms are often rare and highly sort-after by collectors. Others (eg. Mammillaria elongata) are produced commercially by the thousands.

Joined : 07 May 2008 Posts : 601 Location : Melbourne

Often the occasional crested freak specimen that is encountered for sale or randomly appears in a collection is welcomed by the collector because it is rarer and more unusual than the original and worth more. Wink

Joined : 24 Jun 2008 Posts : 237 Location : Bendigo

Awsome Lewis! Your Pico is much larger than myne, and yours is cresting, no fair! I had myne 1st Sad

Hahaha.

Now the perfect crest there is awsome! Really gotta get there sometime.

Subject: Re: 2 Crested Mamms Tue 22 Jul 2008 - 0:14

That first Mamm is sexy. They are some nice plants you have Lewis.
I love it when you can see a crest first start to develope. Wishfull thinking can sometimes leed to disapointment though.

Here is a good example... I can only hope.

Sorry to divirt attention Lewis... Laughing

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Joined : 07 May 2008 Posts : 601 Location : Melbourne

Very unusual specimen you got there Kanje, almost looks like it is spiralling or something, somewhat like this:
http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/CEREUS/Cereus_forbesii/Cereus_forbesii_spiralis/Cereus_forbesii_v_spiraliforme.htm

Subject: Re: 2 Crested Mamms Wed 23 Jul 2008 - 22:37

Lewis what is the train system like to get to CC from city.

Subject: Re: 2 Crested Mamms Thu 24 Jul 2008 - 21:25