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PC (Predominant Cultivar) seal. Plain ring.

Pachanoi

PC (Predominant Cultivar)

Also written as PC, Pachanot, Predominant Cultivar

One grower records (Predominant Cultivar) as the almost everybody meets first: one , grown from one seed, sold in garden centers everywhere and the usual grafting .

PachanoiNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.

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The longer version

A specialist reference says PC may be a or a short-spined bridgesii-type plant close to Ritter's riomizquensis, and one grower reports that some collectors argue it is riomizquensis rather than pachanoi.

Character

Growth habit
It is described as one genetically identical clone, spread by cutting through Californian nurseries and gardens.
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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