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Oscar seal. Monstrose growth.

Pachanoi

Oscar

Oscar is reportedly a that will not grow tidily: it throws and sections as readily as normal upright stems, which is exactly why breeders keep it.

  • crested growth
  • monstrose sectors
  • tall stems
  • mutation prone

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

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus pachanoi

syn. Echinopsis pachanoi

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Character

Growth habit
Reportedly, it can also run up as tall straight stems, and frequently throws irregular mutated sections alongside them.
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 — not a photograph of this plant.

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