This variable globular cactus forms offsets with stems up to 80mm (3?in) wide and have prominent 4-angled tubercles. The areoles are woolly with 4 to 6 spreading whitish spines and the diurnal purplish trumpet-shaped flowers appear during summer.

Hardiness zones 10 to 11

Mammillaria compressais naturally found in North America growing in Central Mexico in well drained, moderately fertile gravelly soils in an open sunny position and is frost tender but drought tolerant.

This Pincushion Cacti is grown for its appearance and flowers. It is used in cactus and succulent garden as a specimen or in rockeries and as an indoor plant. It establishing from division in 1 to 2 years and is suitable for coastal or inland regions. It is also found in botanical collections or planted against a sunny wall.ID 2087

Mammillaria(măm-i-LAH-ree-a) compressa(kom-PRES-sa)

Cactaceae(kak-TAY-see-ee)