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Pach BK10805.1 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Pachanoi

Pach BK10805.1

Well documented

Also written as BK10805.1, BK10805

pach BK10805.1 is a field-collected Bolivian rather than a garden selection: the code is a collector's accession number, from Cochabamba. Growers say it can pass for the common at a distance, but it has no sawtooth profile along the ribs and its are noticeably small, which settles the question in person. It reached collectors through a short, traceable chain of named growers, and those who grow it call it consistent. One member speculates that green-skinned plants from this region may be natural pachanoi-peruvianus crosses, which the wiki page flags as a guess.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • tiny areoles
  • no sawtooth
  • PC-like
  • consistent grower

PachanoiField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.

Of the 15 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on, 4 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 plant is recorded as field-collected in Cochabamba, Bolivia, by Ben Kamm of Sacred Succulents — the BK in the code is Kamm's.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

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Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Pach BK10805.1. 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: pachanoi, Bolivian material.

Collected in Cochabamba, Bolivia, by a named collector and circulated through a named grower.Reported, but not confirmed.

It reached collectors through Ryan Dailey, who passed material to other growers including Christopher Mills.Reported, but not confirmed.

The wiki page is careful to separate this Bolivian accession from Ben Kamm's Peruvian number BK08612.4, which is tied to the Los Gentiles and IcarosDNA lines and comes from different country entirely.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The plant is recorded as field-collected in Cochabamba, Bolivia, by Ben Kamm of Sacred Succulents — the BK in the code is Kamm's.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.

Ribs
Told apart from the common commercial pachanoi by the absence of a sawtooth profile.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Rib profile is a real, usable character, and many plants in the genus lack the notched sawtooth edge.It lacks the sawtooth rib profile that PC shows.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Absence of a sawtooth rib edge is an ordinary difference between plants in this genus.
Growth habit
Growers describe it as an unusually consistent plant to work with.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
Very small areoles.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Small areoles are an ordinary, plausible feature for a Trichocereus.appearance: at a glance it resembles the common PC clone, and growers who have handled it say the resemblance does not survive a closer look.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.areoles: very small.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Very small areoles are within the normal variation of the genus.

What the sources say

This is the clearest example of the accession-code naming convention: a collector's initials followed by a number. 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 idea that a green rather than blue plant of this might be a natural, non-human between limanoid pachanoi and native peruvianus is presented as one member's guess, not a finding.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.

Keep exploring

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