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NZ Pach Dalton seal. short spines recorded.

Pachanoi

NZ Pach Dalton

Partially documented

Also written as Dalton

NZ Pach Dalton is a New Zealand named after the street its grew on, and short spines are the trait growers pick it out by. The mother is still in the care of the grower who documented it, and seed from it — some open-pollinated, some crossed — has been shared out after testing. Beyond the short spines, no count or colour detail has been recorded.Reported, but not confirmed.

  • short spines
  • green skin
  • viable seed

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

Of the 14 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on, 3 name who reports them and 10 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 mother plant came from a street of that name; it is kept by a named grower who germination-tests the seed before distributing it.

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 NZ Pach Dalton. 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 takes its name from Dalton Street in New Zealand, where the plant came from.Reported, but not confirmed.

The mother plant is looked after by Ross Gurau, who has propagated it and passed material on.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Seed taken off the mother has been shared with the community, some of it open-pollinated and some from deliberate crosses.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Gurau runs germination tests on that seed before sending it out.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The mother plant came from a street of that name; it is kept by a named grower who germination-tests the seed before distributing it.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.

  • nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans towards nearly smooth, read from the spines line below.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
and ribs: green skin with the rib structure normal for the species; rib count and how blue it goes are not recorded.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Green skin with ordinary ribbing is typical, and leaving rib count and bluing unrecorded claims nothing false.
Spines
Short.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Short spination is common in the genus and the claim states nothing that conflicts with it.Short — this is the trait the clone is known for.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Short spines are well within the range Trichocereus shows, so nothing here is botanically implausible.
Growth habit
The plant produces viable seed, and growers report good germination from it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

Naming a clone after the street or locality of the mother stand is one of the four naming patterns our sources record. The wiki page carries a banner saying it was assembled by a bot from community chat and has not been checked by an editor.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Our own notes already record this clone in the same terms — street-name origin, short spines, germination-tested seed — so the two agree.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.

Keep exploring

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