Pachanoi

Oscar

Well documented

Oscar is a that will not grow tidily: it throws and sections as readily as normal upright stems, which is exactly why breeders keep it. It came to the breeder most associated with it through an old forum trade, and it has been used as a parent in a number of crosses since. It is regularly confused with the Olivia, but the two have been crossed together, which shows they are different plants. One recorded piece of practical experience: the tallest stem back pushed new buds out over the crested and monstrose growth.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm 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.

Of the 10 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 9 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Updated 24 Aug 2026Added 23 Aug 2026

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 breeder Misplant picked the plant up in a forum trade many years ago.

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 confirmed cross for Oscar, and no other entry here names it as a parent. What the record does hold is below.

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.

Oscar's own parentage is not recorded; it arrived in the breeder's collection as a traded plant. It is documented as a parent in other people's crosses instead.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

Oscar is often mentioned together with the clone Olivia, but the two are separate individuals — the proof being that they have been crossed with one another.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Misplant has used Oscar heavily in breeding, including a of chalaensis with pachanoi Oscar.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The breeder Misplant picked the plant up in a forum trade many years ago.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: It mutates readily, producing both crested and monstrose growth.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.It can also run up as tall straight stems, and frequently throws irregular mutated sections alongside them.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Tall normal stems throwing irregular mutated sectors alongside them is a growth habit the genus genuinely shows.Topping the tallest upright stem is used as a management trick, and doing so pushed new buds out across the crested and monstrose parts of the plant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The wiki page carries a banner saying it was assembled by a bot from community chat and has not been checked by an editor. The wiki page notes that Oscar and Olivia are routinely spoken of together, which is itself a source of confusion between two distinct clones.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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.

Learned from

sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0)

This entry rests on one record. Every fact above traces back to sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0). No second, independent source has confirmed it, so read it as one account rather than as a checked fact. Where we do find a second source we name it here, and the register shows how much of this site rests on each.

Links go to the channel, the subreddit or the front page of a site — never to one video, one post or somebody else’s product page. Nothing above is copied from any of them: every entry is written fresh from a fact list, with the source recorded against each fact as it went in.

Written from scratch off a cited fact list, never copied. Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0), @sanpedromastery6262 and @IMDAVESBUD on YouTube, r/sanpedrocactus and medicactus.com's buyer guides, then checked against university extension horticulture, botanical gardens, cactus and succulent societies and the published botanical record. I will not name a plant from a photograph.

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