Few years ago when I started to get really into growing cacti I put this one my wishlist. Among all the yellow and dark pinks this one looked so delicate and unusual. Peachy pink flowers on a small round cactus stole my heart!
And I got it eventually. A small cutting arrived to me about 2,5 years ago. And I am watching it like hawk.
Mediolobivia pygmaea mudanensis
This little one can be found natively in Bolivia and Argentina. It is a small cactus and grows a bit slow too. At least for me. But knowing that I tend to overwater them, I prefer to water less and have them growing slower, than trying to pump them and find then all rotten one day. I hope it will soon start growing some offshoots, so that I can split it and have it in two separate pots. Just in case ;).
I checked some photos from the blooms from last year and I think the flowers had a bit paler colour. This year it has more orange. I like the way it looks this year. The flowers also seem a bit bigger and have better shape. I guess the age did that and maybe the extra vitamins I gave them at the beginning of the season.
To compare: photo above I took today, below was taken last year when it bloomed. The pot is the same so you see it did grow a bit, but is still pretty small.
Lastly a group photo with her roomies. Funny how last year there were different cacti in bloom together with this one. This year they only have buds forming and will bloom a lot later.
Today we have: sulcorebutia frankiana with dark flowers, Sulcorebutia langerii with yellow, Mammillaria matudae with tiny pink flowers and of course our today's start in the front.
My other blooming cacti:
 Chamaecereus hybrid |  Sulcorebutia Canigueralii |  Mammillaria camptotricha |  Mammillaria Glassii |
 Gymnocalycium baldianum |  Mediolobivia mudanensis |  Lobivia Arachnacantha |  Rebutia hybrid |
 Mammillaria Bombycina |  Mammillaria Gracilis Snowcap |  Mammillaria haageana |  Mammillaria backebergiana |
 Chamaecereus silvestrii |  Mammillaria prolifera |  Rebutia Fabrisii var. Aureiflora |  Lobivia Wrightiana |
 Aylostera Flavistyla FR756 |  Parodia concinna |  Mammillaria Copper King |  Gymnocalycium Brushii |
 Mammillaria backebergiana |  Gymnocalycium damsii |  Echinopsis subdenudata |  Rhipsalis pilocarpa |
 Mammillaria Prolifera |  Lobivia arachnacantha v. vallegrandensis |  Mediolobivia atrovirens |  Mammillaria magnimamma |
 Sulcorebutia langerii |
Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos and text are my own.
