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Cahuilla, a Other Trichocereus grown in the yard, recorded as monstrose. Skin it holds a checkerboard glaucous pattern, ranges from green to blue depending where it is grown, and has thrown several variegated pieces; spines new spines come in red and stay red in shade but bleach…
Growing

Cahuilla

One of the healthiest and fastest growers in the yard, and there are hints of monstrose in it.

Read the reference entry → — what the name Cahuilla means, where it came from, and what other growers record about it.

Nothing off this one is listed at the moment. It's growing in the yard and gets cut when it's ready.

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Species group
Other Trichocereus
In the yard since
Not recorded yet
Where it came from
Not recorded yet
Photographs
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Anything marked “not recorded yet” is a fact I have not written down. I would rather leave the gap than guess at it.

Photographs

My own pictures of this plant, taken in the yard. The drawn frames are my illustrations, standing in until I have photographed the rest.

  • Line drawing of a clumping cactus, offsets pushing up around the base of the mother stem

    Illustration

  • Line drawing of a branched cactus with two arms curving upward from the main stem

    Illustration

  • Line drawing magnifying a single areole on a rib crest — the felted cushion, its ring of radial spines and one longer central spine

    Illustration

  • Line drawing of young seed-grown cactus seedlings in a shallow pot of gritty mix

    Illustration

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