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Pepa Blue seal. Plain ring.

Hybrid

Pepa Blue

Also written as Pepa

Pepa Blue is reportedly a slim, blue Spanish whose history has actually been chased down: the grew in a private back garden in the countryside outside Murcia, two went to a pair of brothers in the mid-1990s, and a Spanish nursery later took one of those, named it and distributed it.

  • slim columns
  • blue skin
  • many basal pups

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

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The longer version

Species: a suspected ; the name is built from and .

The second original cutting is said to be with that family still.

Character

  • single column to clumps freely: this one leans strongly toward clumps freely, read from the growth line below.
Skin
Reportedly blue.
Growth habit
Reportedly an unusually slim plant — its girth stays closer to a bridgesii than to a typical pachanoi even when given plenty of root room. It reportedly pups freely from the base.
Drawing of a cross: one column carrying a rounded, nearly spineless habit on one side and a deeply notched, long-spined one on the other.
A hybrid column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

Every photo shows another grower how this one really grows. Thank you.

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