Description
This plant’s Latin name is *Mammillaria bertholdii*, and it was only pulled out in 2013 by a German named Andreas Bethell in the southern part of the volcanic belt in Oaxaca, Mexico. It turns out it had been playing hide‑and‑seek with humans for several hundred years. To have gone undetected in that era of massive species exchange takes skill! As for the discovery process, it was treasure‑hunt‑like: Bethell had been drilling into volcanic rock fissures for many years, and it was only when he spotted a speck of flattened green in what seemed like a barren rock pit that he realized he’d found something—thus the plant world gained another “hidden master”. At 40 °C, without this “sun‑protective coat”, the plant would have been baked into a dry cactus.
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