My Mammillaria karwinskiana flowered a two months ago and recently it started growing the long white tuffs, they feel soft and feathery in the location where the flowers are. And now this bright, hard protuberance has appeared! I have been following Planta’s advice for care. I have watered and fertilized per their schedule. What is going on?? Is this a fruit? Whar are the white puffs??
Just remnants of the flowers, the fruit will only form at the same time the flower is dying and cacti of this genus produce edible berries, actually all cacti produce edible fruits and berries.
2件のいいね I think the magenta growth is a berry.
いいね 1件I din’t know that!!
0件のいいねThank you!
0件のいいねIf the plant is dying, does that mean you can get a new cactus from planting the seeds inside? 😃
いいね 1件 Probably, I have no idea about the germination rate, but there is most likely a good chance of at least one being successful and the success rate varies from cacti to cacti. I have a dragon fruit cactus and a bunny ear prickly pear cactus, that will produce dragon fruit and prickly pears at sexual maturity.
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The pink thing is a fruit and you might be able to eat it you’ll have to look it up but you can extract the seeds and grow babies
いいね 1件It is very small so I won’t eat it but it is beautiful
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Cute Lil fruit!
いいね 1件 I'm pretty sure mammillaria are self- pollinating. Usually if it's not viable it'll start to shrivel back up. Oohhh the white cottony stuff is tomentum
3件のいいねTomentum! I will look it up
0件のいいね Also there is no known species of cacti that itself or it’s fruit are poisonous or harmful in any way.
いいね 1件Those could seeds inside the red colored looking fruit
0件のいいねThe fruit has doubled in size!
If you enlarge the photo I can see another that is another fruit that is slowly being born!
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