Silver Cluster Cactus
Mammillaria prolifera (Mill.) Haw.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 cm
- wide
- —
Cactaceae
Also called Texas nipple cactus, Texas Nipple Cactus, West Indian Nipple-cactus
Formerly Cactus prolifer, Chilita prolifera, Ebnerella prolifera, Escobariopsis prolifera, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Texas to NE. Mexico, Cuba to HispaniolaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 10 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia and Desert-Tropicals, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia cream, pink, white, yellow; Desert-Tropicals yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -2 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from Desert-Tropicals, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Spanish
- biznaga prolifera, Bombillito, Biznaga Prolifera
- Japanese
- マツガスミ（松霞）, サイショウマル（最小丸）
- Chinese (China)
- 松霞
- Slovak
- mamilária prerastajúca
- Turkish
- Teksas Meme Kaktüsü
- Russian
- Маммиллярия израстающая, Маммиллярия побегоносная
- Chinese
- 多子球, 松霞
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Desert-Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Mammillaria prolifera (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.