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Camillo seal. short spines recorded.

Pachanoi

Camillo

Partially documented

Also written as Camilo

Camillo, also spelled Camilo, is a Spanish traced to three mother plants over 25 years old at the Habitacactus quarry in Murcia. It is described as a textbook with dark, glossy green and vigorous growth, though some listings hedge the species toward . Its spines are the odd part of the record: the same source calls them both small and powerful, which may just reflect age or conditions.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • dark glossy skin
  • vigorous growth

PachanoiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

Of the 10 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 7 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Added 23 Aug 2026

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus pachanoi

syn. Echinopsis pachanoi

Filed under Pachanoi

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

The clone comes from Murcia in Spain.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

Not in the yardAsk if you are after one

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Camillo. Nobody names a mother or a father for it, and no other entry here names it as a parent.

That is the record, not an oversight: of the 749 names in this library, 693 have no recorded relation either. Most named clones were selected, cut and passed along without anyone writing down what they came out of. A parent goes in here when a source states it and never because a name looks like one — a wrong pedigree would travel further than a blank one, because pedigrees get copied.

If you know where it came from, tell us — a person reads everything before it appears.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: described as a textbook pachanoi; some listings label it Trichocereus macrogonus / pachanoi.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

Its source material is three enormous mother plants said to be more than 25 years old, growing at the Habitacactus quarry.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The plants there are reported to have been grown without fertilisers or additives.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The clone comes from Murcia in Spain.Reported, but not confirmed.

Character

A bar is drawn only where one of the lines below states it — never from the species, never from a photograph.

  • slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans towards fast grower, read from the growth line below.
  • nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans towards nearly smooth, read from the spines line below.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
Dark and glossy green.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Dark glossy green skin is well within the colour range Trichocereus shows.
Spines
Descriptions conflict, with the same source calling them both fairly small and powerful.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
Reported as vigorous and healthy.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Vigour and good health are ordinary, unremarkable traits for a plant of this genus.

What the sources say

The spine description contradicts itself within a single source, and the species label shifts between pachanoi and macrogonus/pachanoi depending on the listing.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The whole entry rests on European sales listings and photographs relayed by one contributor.Reported, but not confirmed.

Drawing of a pachanoi-type column: broad, with low rounded ribs, almost no spines, and a small notch in the rib above each areole.
A Pachanoi column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Pachanoi. The better-documented ones come first.

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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.