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Gator seal. monstrose growth.

Pachanoi

Gator

Partially documented

Gator is a that looks like a plain San Pedro — defined ribs, small , short spines — but is valued for what its seedlings do rather than for its own shape. Growers say crosses made with it frequently throw unusual growth. The community wiki puts the original plant in Sonoma, California; a suggested link to a well-known collector's garden is unconfirmed.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • pachanoi look
  • short spines
  • small areoles
  • funky offspring

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

Of the 8 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 7 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.

Filed under Pachanoi

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

Community reports place the original Gator plant in Sonoma, California.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

Not in the yardAsk if you are after one

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Gator. 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: described as a close to a non-monstrose .One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. The sources describe clear ribs, small areoles and short spines, an ordinary non-monstrose habit that contradicts the claim.

Whether the clone came out of Bob Baker's collection is still argued and unsettled.Reported, but not confirmed.

The wiki page carries the wiki's banner saying a bot assembled it from community discussion and that no editor has checked it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

Community reports place the original Gator plant in Sonoma, California.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.

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  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Notes
Growth reads as an ordinary San Pedro: clear ribs, small areoles and short spines, with none of the habit.Our house botanist's reading of this: The sources describe clear ribs, small areoles and short spines, an ordinary non-monstrose habit that contradicts the claim.Growers report that seedlings raised from Gator crosses often come out oddly shaped even though the parent looks conventional.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The wiki page raises, and then leaves open, whether the clone traces back to Bob Baker's collection.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Pachanoi. The better-documented ones come first.

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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.