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Looking straight down onto the growing tip, a dense crown of long straw-brown spines radiating from white woolly areoles with the green rib tips only just showing through, dry lawn blurred below.
Growing

Tacaquirensis

Also written as Tacaquirensis (Cactus Affinities Phenotype)

The Cactus Affinities-selected Tacaquirensis phenotype — a little different from the Tacaquirensis pheno that's been making the rounds, with its own unique look and character.

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Species group
Other Trichocereus
Photographs
4 on this page

The story

Heavily spined and much fatter in person than the photos suggest.

What it looks like

Ribs
Reportedly usually nine or ten, very large, with a deep V-shaped notch between widely spaced areoles.
Spines
Heavy. They reportedly come out red and darken to black, commonly passing two inches, thick, strong and not easily knocked off.
Growth habit
Fat. Reportedly tall and heavy, often reaching six inches across and fifteen feet high.

Photographs

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

  • The spines are long enough to cross over the ones from the next rib.

  • Behind it, a reddish-brown wood fence, the gray wall of a house and the dark rafter ends of a patio cover under clear blue sky.

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