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TPQC seal. crested growth.

Pachanoi

TPQC

Well documented

Also written as Trichocereus pachanoi 'quasi-cristata', quasi-cristata

TPQC is a non-PC picked up at a store nursery around 2004 and named for its half-crested habit - the grower who found it coined quasi-cristata on a suspicion of snail damage rather than genetics behind the cresting. It grows fat and vigorous, throwing both and normal columns, with spines long enough to give it a cast. Whether the cresting is heritable is still open: the namer's own crosses have not settled it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • crested sections
  • fat growth
  • intermediate spines
  • vigorous

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

Of the 16 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 15 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 pachanoi

syn. Echinopsis pachanoi

Filed under Pachanoi

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

the grower posting as nitrogen - corroborree

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: TPQC. Children: Beyond Pineapple, Hybrid family, TPQC is recorded as its seed parent — unconfirmed.

TPQCyou are hereChildBeyond Pineapple

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

Species, as our sources record it: pachanoi, described as a non-PC type.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

The quasi-cristata name was coined because the crested growth followed what looked like snail damage rather than clearly arising from genetics.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

By 2014 the grower had come to think Altman's plant was the same .Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Another grower, Zelly, is said to hold a of it that reached about ten feet.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The species is not settled. Our sources record it as a non-PC pachanoi; a specialist reference says the identification has changed repeatedly and reads it as probably a Trichocereus peruvianus that is not really a crested clone at all. Both readings stay on the record.Our house botanist's reading of this: Sources split on whether this is a genuinely crested clone or a misread plant, and botany alone cannot settle it.

A Californian nursery grows this clone and Dave Turner Pach a few feet apart and reports independently that as they mature they look identical, and separately traces its own plant under this name to the same large wholesale grower the originator came to suspect. So the resemblance is now two people's observation rather than one contributor's remark on an unverified page. It is still two people saying two plants look alike, which is not a finding that they are the same clone, and this library does not say they are.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The grower who named it found the plant at a nursery inside a local Target store in the United States around 2004, which struck them as unusual because such outlets mostly sold pachanoi.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.

  • slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans towards fast grower, read from the growth line below.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Spines
Intermediate in length, giving the plant a peruvianus or cast while still sitting inside the pachanoi range.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
Vigorous and notably fat, putting out both crested and ordinary columnar sections, with the crested parts continuing to grow crested.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
Resilience: the grower reports it stayed in good condition through a couple of years of poor care. Breeding: it has been used as a parent, in crosses recorded as TPQC with TPM, and as N1 with TPQC.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

One contributor to the community wiki thinks it may be the same plant as the clone Dave Turner Pach. That is an opinion on an unverified page, not a finding. The originator argued both sides of whether the cresting is genetic or injury-induced, and leaned towards the snail explanation after one cross produced no mutants. The same grower also came to believe Altman's monstrose pachanoi is the same clone, while our own notes separately record community members suggesting TPQC may be the same plant as Dave Turner Pach - two different identity claims for one name.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The growth our record gives TPQC. A drawing of the form, not of any one plant.Same plant, same tissue — only the shape of the growing point changed.

Filed under the same family, Pachanoi. 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.