Mammillaria standleyi explained

Mammillaria standleyi[1] is a species of the family Cactaceae native to the Sierra Madre Occidental of Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Sonora. It has red-purple flowers surrounded by cottony pubescence. Fruits are red and edible, tasting like apples, although too small to be of much food value to humans.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Orcutt, Cactography 8. 1926
  2. Laferrière, Joseph E., Charles W. Weber and Edwin A. Kohlhepp. 1991a. Use and nutritional composition of some traditional Mountain Pima plant foods. Journal of Ethnobiology 11(1):93-114.
  3. Britton & Rose, Cact. 4: 97. 1923
  4. R.T. Craig. 1945. Mammillaria Handbook. Abbey Garden Press.
  5. Lindsay, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 303. 1942.
  6. Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (US) 12(10): 155. 1940.
  7. Boed., Mammillarien-Vergleichs-Schluessel 47. 1933.
  8. Orcutt, Cactography 2. 1926.
  9. Laferriere, J. Mammillaria Soc. 38(2): 21, fig. 1998
  10. Fritz Schwarz, Blätt. Sukkulentenk. 1: 5. 1949.