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Yowie seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Pachanoi
Yowie
Well documented
Also written as Yowie Pachanoi
Yowie is an Australian with a traceable home. It comes out of the Fields collection at Yarrawonga in Victoria, and it carries a growers find easy to pick out: two spines sitting side by side at every , over ribs that stand up unusually sharply. The name is not the plant's. It belonged to a forum member whose handle was Yowie, and who walked another grower into the collection where the stood.Reported, but not confirmed.
paired spines
pronounced ribs
Australian
PachanoiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 10 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 8 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source names a mother or a father for this one.
Origin
Named after a member of an Australian growers' forum whose handle was Yowie, and who put another grower onto the Fields collection where the mother plant grew. The sources give a handle and a first name and nothing verified about the person, so they are they until they say otherwise.
No source in this library records a cross for Yowie. 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
The in that garden are reported to have reached Australia through the collecting expeditions of Blossfeld, who funded the travelling by selling plants on to collectors — which the source frames as probable rather than settled.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The comes out of the Fields collection at Yarrawonga in Victoria, Australia.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.
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.
Ribs
Very pronounced, standing out more than on a typical pachanoi.Reported, but not confirmed.
Spines
Two run in parallel out of each areole, which is the feature growers use to recognise it.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Paired spines emerging parallel from an areole is a real and consistent enough trait to serve as a recognition marker.A second source describes the same pairing and adds that both point downwards.Reported, but not confirmed.
Growth habit
Overall it reads close to the Ecuadorian pachanoi forms.Reported, but not confirmed.
What the sources say
The reference that documents it warns that plants very like this one turn up in Australia and elsewhere, especially out of Ecuador, so the look alone will not identify a Yowie; it also leaves open whether the name marks a clone or a local type.Reported, but not confirmed.A nursery selling the clone says the same thing from the other side of the counter — that large plants of the same type are found across Australia.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The expedition route is framed by that source as probable rather than settled, so the collector is carried by surname only.Reported, but not confirmed.
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.
