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

Hybrid

Pepa Blue

Well documented

Also written as Pepa

Pepa Blue is 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. The name itself is shorthand for crossed with , which is what growers suspect from its appearance rather than something anyone recorded at the time. In the ground it stays narrow — closer to a in girth than a pachanoi — carries a blue bloom, and throws pups readily from the base.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm 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.

Of the 13 things this page says, 3 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

Not recorded

No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.

Filed under Hybrid

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

The mother plant stood in a private back garden in the countryside outside Murcia, in south-eastern Spain.

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 Pepa Blue, 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.

The hybrid status is inferred from how the plant looks and is baked into the name — the first syllables of peruvianus and pachanoi. No actual was recorded and neither parent plant is identified.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: a suspected hybrid; the name is built from PEruvianus and PAchanoi.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Around thirty years before the account was written — roughly 1996 — that grower gave two cuttings to a pair of brothers, who planted them at their own place nearby.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The Spanish nursery Tricholand obtained one of those established plants, named it Pepa Blue and distributed it.Reported, but not confirmed.

The second original cutting is said to be with that family still.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The history was pieced together by a community member making enquiries locally in Murcia, and other members credit that member as the source.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The mother plant stood in a private back garden in the countryside outside Murcia, in south-eastern Spain.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.

  • single column to clumps freely: this one leans strongly towards clumps freely, read from the growth line below.
Skin
Glaucous blue.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A waxy blue bloom is well within the colour range Trichocereus shows.
Growth habit
An unusually slim plant — its girth stays closer to a bridgesii than to a typical pachanoi even when given plenty of root room.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Stem diameter is largely clonal, and slim columnar forms in this range are ordinary.It pups freely from the base.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Basal offsetting is normal and common throughout the genus.

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 hybrid parentage is a suspicion encoded in the name, not a documented cross.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Hybrid. The better-documented ones come first.

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