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

Peruvianus

Rio Rimac

Partially documented

Also written as Río Rímac

Rio Rimac is a blue, named after the river valley in the Lima region that its material is said to come from. Growers connect it to two other vendor labels using the Rimac name, with one experienced contributor putting the match at about 95 per cent likely — a probability, not a fact. Its colour is the only trait recorded; count, spines and are undescribed.Reported, but not confirmed.

  • blue skin
  • glaucous bloom
  • peruvianus type

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

Of the 10 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on, 2 name who reports them and 7 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 peruvianus

syn. Echinopsis peruviana

Filed under Peruvianus

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

The name comes from the Rímac River, which runs through the Lima region of Peru, and points at where the material came from.

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 cross for Rio Rimac. 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: peruvianus, Peruvian Torch.

Contributors link it closely to the Rimac Valley that Verne, of Cactus Kate, used to offer, and to the Rimac sold by Cactus Affinity.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The strongest statement on the wiki page puts it at roughly 95 per cent likely that those labels point at the same plant, or at collections from the same wild population.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The name comes from the Rímac River, which runs through the Lima region of Peru, and points at where the material came from.Reported, but not confirmed.

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.

Skin
Blue and glaucous — this is the trait it is recognised by.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A heavy glaucous bloom giving a blue cast is a real and often recognisable trait in the genus.
Notes
appearance: growers describe it as a classic blue peruvianoid.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A blue, glaucous peruvianus-type body is a widespread and ordinary form in the genus.ribs, spine length, spine colour and areole spacing: none of these have been documented.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. Our own notes record "Rimac" as a label covering several genetically distinct clones and seed-grown lines rather than one , while the wiki page leans towards one plant sitting behind several vendor labels; the two readings are in tension and the wiki page itself only claims a probability.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Drawing of a peruvianus-type column: stout and blue with a heavy powdery bloom, ribs deeply notched between large areoles, and long spines.
A Peruvianus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Peruvianus. 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.