Rimac × Pachanoi

Photographs

My own pictures of this plant, taken in the yard.

• Enlarge A long Rimac × Pachanoi stem laid the full width of the whitewashed board, the board set down on grass, its dry brown root mass still attached at the right end and short spines set sparsely along broad flat ribs.
• Enlarge A long cactus lying on its side across a white board in the grass, growing tip to the left and a corky, soil-crusted root end to the right that runs up onto the frame's wooden rail, its ribs shallow and its areoles carrying only stubby spines, with printed tape measures along… — Red toy mushrooms and yellow fabric sunflowers are fixed all the way around the board's wood frame, and one thin dried root stands up from the root end onto the white surface above it.

  Red toy mushrooms and yellow fabric sunflowers are fixed all the way around the board's wood frame, and one thin dried root stands up from the root end onto the white surface above it.

• Enlarge A long pale blue-green cutting held upright in the lawn, a big tan corky wound partway up its right rib and a line of smaller scars running down the left one, the base cut and browned at the bottom of the frame. — "Rimac" is written on it in black marker, down by the cut.

  "Rimac" is written on it in black marker, down by the cut.

• Enlarge A Rimac × Pachanoi held upright on the lawn in strong sun, two heads joined most of their length with a long silvery corky scar down one face and soil still on the bottom end. — The measuring board is already down in the grass, and the next cutting with it.

  The measuring board is already down in the grass, and the next cutting with it.

• Enlarge The buried end of a Rimac × Pachanoi cutting: the cut has healed into hard corky orange tissue, dry roots still hang off it, and the clone name is written across the skin in marker just above. — The name goes on the end that gets buried. · July 2026

  The name goes on the end that gets buried. · July 2026