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Taniwha seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Pachanoi
Taniwha
Partially documented
Taniwha is a New Zealand whose one recorded quirk is direction: it does not always grow straight up. Nothing else has been written down - no finder, no date, no or spine detail. The single line is enough to distinguish it in a photograph and not much else.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
leaning growth
New Zealand pachanoi
PachanoiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 3 things this page says, 3 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for Taniwha. 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.
Where the name comes from
The is recorded as coming from New Zealand.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.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Growth habit
It can grow away from the vertical rather than straight up.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
A Pachanoi column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Pachanoi. The better-documented ones come first.
