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

Pachanoi

Notch

Partially documented

Notch is a thick New Zealand that closely resembles the common . What is best recorded about it is its rescue: the was cut to a by its owner, and the grower who now keeps it was allowed to cart the felled pile away instead of it going to the dump. The replanted pieces are fattening back up slowly. Its one recorded weakness is black spotting in humid weather; counts and spine detail are not documented.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • very thick
  • PC-like
  • humidity spots

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

Of the 11 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on, 1 names who reports it and 9 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

Trichocereus pachanoi

syn. Echinopsis pachanoi

Filed under Pachanoi

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

The wiki page reproduces Ross Garau's own remarks about coming by the plant.

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 Notch. 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: New Zealand pachanoi.

The property owner cut the mother plant back to a bare stump — there one day, gone the next.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Returning later to see what had happened, Garau found the whole plant felled and lying in a heap, and the owner handed it over rather than pay to dump it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Garau fitted the lot into the family car alongside three children, took the pieces home and planted them.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The replanted material is thickening up again, but slowly.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The wiki page reproduces Ross Garau's own remarks about coming by the plant.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Growth habit
A notably thick New Zealand pachanoi.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Humid weather brings on black spotting.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Persistent humidity promoting black spotting matches how these plants behave in cultivation.
Notes
appearance: it looks a great deal like PC.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The clone name is also an anatomical term used throughout the community wiki — the small indentation above a pachanoi — so a mention of a "notch" is not necessarily a mention of this plant.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.