Mammillaria spinosissima 'Red-Headed Irishman' featured The blooms and old leaves

The blooms and old leaves will begin to fade and shrivel at the end of the fall season

it may begin to develop a caudex

Until then

Letting light reach deep within the recesses of the plant

Mammillaria spinosissima 'Red-Headed Irishman' featured The blooms and old leavesWith a slow growing and often solitary columnar stem, Mammillaria Red Headed Irishman more than lives up to its name! A rich green base coloration is offset by tubercles topped with white areoles from which clusters of long, rusty red spines emerge. Though this variety can near two feet tall in its native Mexico, within our homes it typically stays more petite, reaching only a few inches tall and wide. Despite its diminutive size, however, Red Headed