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Decosta seal. Crested growth.

Pachanoi

Decosta

Decosta is reportedly a New Zealand with a keeper's name attached to it.

  • crested sections
  • New Zealand pachanoi

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

In the yard

The longer version

An American nursery that sells it calls it a popular from New Zealand that grows big and thick.

Decosta’s growth, drawn — the form, not any one plant.Same plant, same tissue — only the shape of the growing point changed.

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

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