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Guru is a dark green, short-spined with a reputation for strong growth, and the community wiki notes that older plants can start producing sections. It came out of New Zealand from breeder Ross Gurau, who kept a curated collection under a dome and supplied seed widely until moving on around 2024 to 2025. Nothing is recorded about count or flowers.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
dark green
short spines
vigorous
monstrose with age
PachanoiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 6 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 5 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 Guru. 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
Gurau kept a curated collection under a dome at home and was widely used as a source of vigorous seed.Reported, but not confirmed.
Around 2024 to 2025 Gurau moved and left the plants behind.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The comes from New Zealand, from the breeder Ross Gurau.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
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Notes
A dark green pachanoi with short spines and strong growth.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Dark green skin, short spines and vigour are all within the normal range for pachanoi.Mature plants can begin throwing monstrose growth.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
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.
