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Glossary

Caespitose

Growers call it constantly making new heads instead of growing one tall column. Each head grows at normal speed, so the plant gains bulk several times faster than a single-stemmed one, growers say.

Where you meet it: Growth habit

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Sources

Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0) and from @sanpedromastery6262 on YouTube.

Every photograph in the yard pages and the shop is of a plant grown here, except where a listing says it was grown by somebody else — it says so on the listing, above the price.

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