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Lorraine seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Pachanoi
Lorraine
Partially documented
Lorraine is a thick San Pedro with fairly short spines and the white flowers ordinary for the species. Its history is recent and unglamorous in a useful way: a bought off Facebook Marketplace in 2023 from a garden stand in Northridge, California, and named after the person who owned the stand. That is the whole record — no count, no growth rate.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
thick stems
shortish spines
white flowers
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 Lorraine. 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
The stand it came from is in Northridge, California.Reported, but not confirmed.
The carries the name of the person who owned that stand.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The cutting was bought through Facebook Marketplace in 2023.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.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Notes
A thick whose spines are on the short side.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Thick stems with short spines is a routine combination in pachanoi and nothing here is implausible.It produces the white flowers usual for the species.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.
