Dejavue
under study.
The name appears in specialist cactus catalogues, but the person who raised it, its parentage and the date it first circulated remain difficult to verify.
For now, this record keeps the label as Mammillaria cv. ‘Dejavue’. The plant in the photographs has a close-set coat of pale spines, with darker centrals giving the surface its warm detail. That is what the specimen shows; the name’s history needs evidence of its own.
Cactus-Art lists Dejavue as a cultivar and describes elongated areoles and comb-like spines. Giromagi labels a Dejavue plant a hybrid cultivar, while noting that it is often confused with another hybrid. These nursery descriptions are useful leads, not a documented pedigree: neither establishes an original breeder, publication date or confirmed parentage.
This plant joined my collection in 2025, acquired from Pungivendolo. Its tag reads “Mammillaria cv. Dejavue, Piombetti.” I’m recording that wording as it came with the plant; the tag is useful provenance, but it does not by itself confirm Piombetti as the cultivar’s raiser or establish its parentage. Until a dated catalogue or breeder’s record turns up, the name remains provisional.
