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Camillo seal. Plain ring.

Pachanoi

Camillo

Also written as Camilo

Camillo, also spelled Camilo, is reportedly a Spanish traced to three mother plants over 25 years old at the Habitacactus quarry in Murcia. It is described as dark, glossy green and vigorous, and the plants at the quarry are reported to have been grown without fertilizers or additives.

  • dark glossy skin
  • vigorous growth

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

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus pachanoi

syn. Echinopsis pachanoi

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The longer version

Its source material is three enormous mother plants said to be more than 25 years old, growing at the Habitacactus quarry.

The plants there are reported to have been grown without fertilizers or additives.

Character

  • slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans toward fast grower, read from the growth line below.
Skin
Reportedly dark and glossy green.
Growth habit
Reported as vigorous and healthy.
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 — not a photograph of this plant.

Every photo shows another grower how this one really grows. Thank you.

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