The shop is closed just now.The shop is not open for orders yet. Everything here is real and grown in my own yard — have a look around — but I am not taking money until the last few things are in place.Ask about a plant
Capital Cactus seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Pachanoi
Capital Cactus
Partially documented
Capital Cactus is an Australian name that came out of a short-lived Canberra operation: a private grower sold plants for under a year around 2022, and one buyer's surviving plant became the widely propagated . The name itself comes from a small ACT online shop that has since closed. What the plant looks like has never been written down, and growers suspect more than one travels under the label.Reported, but not confirmed.
PachanoiNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.
Of the 9 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on and 8 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
Not recorded
No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.
No source in this library records a cross for Capital Cactus. 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: sold as .
That grower sold plants by email or a small webstore for roughly six to twelve months around 2022.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
One buyer took five of the pachanoi; the single survivor became the clone now propagated widely as Capital Cactus.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The name is tied to a small ACT-based online shop, Capital Cactus & Succulents, which was later taken down because of running costs.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The plants trace back to a private grower in Canberra, the Australian capital.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Notes
The wiki page records no count, spine detail or colour, and notes that two or more different phenotypes may circulate under the name.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
Contributors believe two or more distinct phenotypes circulate as Capital Cactus.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The account of where the name came from is partly speculative, with one contributor explicitly unsure.Reported, but not confirmed.
A Pachanoi column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Pachanoi. The better-documented ones come first.
