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Capital Cactus seal. Plain ring.

Pachanoi

Capital Cactus

Capital Cactus is an Australian out of a short-lived Canberra operation: a private grower sold plants by email or a small webstore for roughly six to twelve months around 2022, one buyer took five, and the single survivor became the now propagated widely.

PachanoiNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.

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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.

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