Mammillaria microthele is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae. It is a succulent cactus subshrub endemic to northeastern Mexico. It grows under bushes in xerophytic shrubland (matorral), on hills and plains of the Mexican Plateau in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Mammillaria formosa being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Mammillaria chionocephala
- Mammillaria perbella
- Mammillaria hahniana
- Mammillaria mystax
- Mammillaria heyderi
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Mammillaria
- Species
- Mammillaria formosa
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