Glossary
Echinopsis
The other genus name these plants get filed under. A 1974 revision moved Trichocereus into Echinopsis, a long line of later botanists declined to follow it, and that refusal — not confusion — is why both names are still in print: the same plant is Trichocereus bridgesii on one label and Echinopsis lageniformis on the next. These pages keep Trichocereus as a genus of its own.
Words that go with it
- EpithetThe second half of a two-word botanical name: the pachanoi in Trichocereus pachanoi.
- MacrogonusA species name for stout, blue, well-spined plants, growers say.
- BridgesiiOne of the main species in this group, also called Bolivian Torch, with usually four to…
- PachanoiGrowers call it the species most people mean by "San Pedro".
- PeruvianusA species also called Peruvian Torch, growers say.
- Scopulicola ("scop")Growers call it a species with very few ribs, essentially no spines, and glossy green…
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