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SoCal Helmut seal. Plain ring.

Pachanoi

SoCal Helmut

SoCal Helmut is reportedly a placeholder name, coined around 2023 for a San Diego County that growers could not match to any other local .

  • distinct pheno

PachanoiInformal label: Shorthand or a describing label rather than a cultivar name. It does not promise one specific plant.

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus pachanoi

syn. Echinopsis pachanoi

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The longer version

The name was put forward around 2023 as a placeholder, to have something to call the plant until its history could be pinned down.

Where it comes from

The plant came from a seller in San Diego County, with Escondido the suspected source.

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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