Mammillaria neopalmeri

Pleasant cactus consisting of a globose stem, slightly depressed at the apex but tending with growth to assume a cylindrical shape and to tuft, giving rise to graceful pillows with multiple heads. Of a beautiful emerald green, its stem is equipped with conical tubercles very prominent, at the apex of which are shown large roundish areoles, white and woolly that blend perfectly with the soft lint present between one tubercle and the other. The radial spines are needle-like and extremely thin, white-yellowish and radially arranged, whilst the central ones are brownish with even darker extremities, at times conspicuously hooked. The wild effect of the cactus is interrupted in summer, when wonderful greenish-white flowers bloom that crown the apex with a touch of elegance and refinement!