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Jims Special seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Pachanoi

Jims Special

Partially documented

Also written as Jim's Special

Jims Special is a name that covers two different plants, both raised at Jim Hall's Australian nursery, Cactus Country — one a with short spines and rounded ribs, the other a with longer spines and sharper definition. The pachanoi has been used in breeding and documented elsewhere. Because the name does not resolve to a single , a seller's label needs to say which of the two you are being offered.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • two clones
  • pachanoi form
  • peruvianus form
  • australian source

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

Of the 9 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 6 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

Both plants using the name came out of Cactus Country in Australia, the nursery run by Jim Hall.

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 Jims Special. 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: two different plants share the name, one pachanoi and one Trichocereus peruvianus.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

The earliest discussion of them sits on the Shaman Australis Botanicals forum, from before social media took over the hobby.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The pachanoi one has been used in breeding and is documented on the Misplant repository.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A California nursery that grows it gives the same origin independently — a blue, short-spined pachanoi from Cactus Country in Australia — and adds the code the wiki page does not carry: it is one of the Jim Hall clones, J16.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

Both plants using the name came out of Cactus Country in Australia, the nursery run by Jim Hall.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Notes
The pachanoi plant shows the usual green to blue-green , short spines and rounded ribs.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Green to blue-green skin, short spines and rounded ribs are the standard pachanoi description.The peruvianus plant carries longer spines and more strongly drawn ribs.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Longer spines and sharper rib definition are typical of peruvianus-type plants.

What the sources say

The name covers two different plants from the same nursery, so Jims Special does not identify one clone.Reported, but not confirmed.

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.