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

Pachanoi

Vanilla Flower

Partially documented

Vanilla Flower is a Tom Juul's Giant separated from the rest of that group by scent: its flowers are reported to smell of vanilla. The distinction traces to an archived recorded talk describing two forms of the , vanilla and non-vanilla. Beyond that the plant is undocumented - no or spine detail - and attempts to trace its pedigree through the seller who distributed it have not succeeded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • vanilla-scented flowers
  • TJG group
  • grafts well

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

Of the 10 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 9 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

Not recorded

No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.

Filed under Pachanoi

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

The clone was distributed by an eBay seller known as Kakster.

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 Vanilla Flower. 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: a grouped with Tom Juul's Giant, which the wiki page treats as T. .Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

Its background rests on an archived recording of a talk about cacti, in which the speaker described two forms of Tom Juul's Giant, one with vanilla-scented flowers and one without.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Growers who tried to reach the distributor for further detail could not, so the pedigree is still open, and collectors were still asking about it in 2026.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The clone was distributed by an eBay seller known as Kakster.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.

Flowers
Reported to smell distinctly of vanilla, which is the one feature separating this clone from other Tom Juul's Giant plants.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
The wiki page records no rib count and no spine measurements. Propagation: it takes to - one grower rescued a two-inch tip that way.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The vanilla/non-vanilla split is second-hand, taken from an old recording rather than from a grower comparing the two plants side by side. The wiki page is bot-compiled and unverified.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

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.