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Capistrano seal. variegated skin, recorded as spineless.
Pachanoi
Capistrano
Partially documented
Capistrano is a spineless with blue , and a habit of skipping along the , growing thick and at a moderate pace. Its origin is softer than its description: one grower believes Guy O'Connor found it during a job in Southern California, and that single hedged post is the only source. Nobody has recorded who gave it the name.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
completely spineless
blue glaucous
skipped areoles
consistently thick
PachanoiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 8 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 6 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for Capistrano. 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
That account comes from a single social media post and is phrased as a belief rather than a documented record.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The is thought to have been found by Guy O'Connor while working in Southern California.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 steadyfast grower
slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans towards fast grower, read from the growth line below.
nearly smoothheavily spined
nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans strongly towards nearly smooth, read from the spines line below.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Skin
Blue and glaucous, with variegation the wiki page describes as appealing.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Ribs
Areoles are commonly skipped along the rib.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Irregular or skipped areoles along a rib do occur in this genus and are plausible.
Spines
None at all.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
Consistently thick, at a medium-fast rate.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Thick stems with medium-fast growth are a common and plausible habit here.
What the sources say
The origin rests on one social media post prefaced with a personal belief rather than a record, and the community wiki rates that source only middling.Reported, but not confirmed.
The growth our record gives Capistrano. A drawing of the form, not of any one plant.The sector runs the length of the stem because it follows a line of growing tissue, not the light.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Pachanoi. The better-documented ones come first.
