Maxma — Gymnocalycium mihanovichii Clone Profile
Maxma is a compact own-root mihanovichii with sharply peaked ribs and a moody patchwork of olive green, smoky charcoal, blush pink, and warm coral-red.
Maxma stands out through structure as much as color. The body is compact and low, with pronounced triangular ribs that rise into pointed, sculptural peaks, giving the plant a crisp, star-cut silhouette from above. Each rib carries a fine-grained, matte skin and small pale areoles tipped with short, slender brown spines that keep the profile neat rather than bristling. Its coloration reads like layered camouflage filtered through sunset tones: olive to grey-green across the upper body, washed with peachy pink and cream, then deepened by inky charcoal patches and coral-red saturation concentrated around the lower flanks. The variegation is irregular and painterly rather than striped, moving across the ribs in broken islands and soft-edged bands. On its own roots, Maxma presents as a particularly grounded, sculptural clone with strong contrast between angular rib architecture and shifting, almost brushed color fields.
Clone Characteristics
- Body color: Olive green to grey-green with blush pink, cream, coral-red, and dark charcoal to near-black areas.
- Variegation: Yes
- Variegation pattern: Irregular patchwork variegation with soft-edged sectors and mottled bands in pink, cream, green, and coral-red, overlaid with darker smoky patches.
- Ribs: Compact body with pronounced triangular ribs, sharply peaked and strongly sculpted, creating a star-like outline from above.
- Spines: Small pale areoles with short, slender brown spines; sparse and tidy in presentation.
- Growth form: Solitary, compact, depressed-globose plant on its own roots.
- Distinctive traits: Sharply pointed rib peaks, matte fine-grained epidermis, and a high-contrast patchwork of olive, blush, coral, cream, and smoky dark tones.
- Root status: own_root
Origin & Provenance
- Source nursery: Boonsamai
- Source person: Wikki
- Source country: Thailand
- Acquired date: 2026-05-03
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