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

Peruvianus

T. Peruvianus Rimac

Well documented

Also written as Rimac

Rimac is a place name doing duty as a name, taken from the Rimac River valley near Lima. In practice it covers several distinct plants and seed-grown lines, so two plants sold under it need not match. The wiki page describes the general range - blue-green through dark green , honey to dark brown spines - and is explicit that the specifics depend entirely on which collection your plant came from.Reported, but not confirmed.

  • multi-clone label
  • variable spines
  • blue to dark green

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

Of the 16 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 13 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 is taken from the valley of the Rimac River, in Peru's Lima Province.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

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Family line

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This cultivar: T. Peruvianus Rimac. Children: Rimac × Pachanoi, Hybrid family, T. Peruvianus Rimac is recorded as its seed parent — unconfirmed.

T. Peruvianus Rimacyou are hereChildRimac × Pachanoi

Every ring is that plant’s own seal, in its family’s colour — open one to keep going.

Each plant wears its own seal here, coloured by its family — so a cross shows which side brought what before you read a name. A dashed ring is a plant with no page here yet, and a wire is only ever drawn from a parent somebody wrote down. Children are worked out from the other entries rather than stored on this one, so recording a cross anywhere lights it up on both plants.

The line matters as much as the box. A dashed line is a cross we can report but cannot confirm. Every cross drawn here is at that weakest reading, which is the true state of this plant's record.

Drawn 3 generations each way. Everything our sources record for this plant is in the drawing; the family stops there, not the tree.

The longer version

Named for the Rímac River valley in Lima Province, Peru.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The wiki page notes the river was held sacred and took its name from an Inca oracle whose name meant speaker or talker, and that a Spanish mishearing of it produced the city name Lima.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

In cultivation the label covers several distinct clones and seed-grown lines rather than one .Reported, but not confirmed.

The vendor Verne distributed plants under the name and is thought to have obtained the material from Bob Ressler, whose site Verne cited.Reported, but not confirmed.

A Californian nursery selling one plant under this label describes the chain back to Ressler's material as reasonable speculation and no more, which is exactly the position the wiki page takes.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The same catalogue offers more than one distinct plant under the Rimac name, which is the entry's own point demonstrated in a single seller's rather than argued.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The name is taken from the valley of the Rimac River, in Peru's Lima Province.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.

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Skin
Anywhere from blue-green to dark green.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Body colour from glaucous blue-green to dark green is normal variation in these plants.
Spines
Variable, honey-coloured through to dark brown.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Spine colour ranging from honey to dark brown is typical variation.
Notes
Because several different plants share the label, count, spine length and overall shape depend on which collection a plant came from.Reported, but not confirmed.

What the sources say

This is the single best example of why a clone name is not a guarantee. Two sellers offering "Rimac" can be offering genuinely different plants, and neither is lying. Community members trace a name through its custodians and vendors before accepting it, which is the right instinct.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The wiki page's central point is that the label is not one clone, which matches our own notes's treatment of Rimac as a multi-clone name.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.The distribution chain back to Bob Ressler is presented as belief rather than fact. The wiki page is bot-compiled and unverified.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.

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