Glossary
Macrogonus
A species name for stout, blue, well-spined plants, growers say. Under recent formal revisions it is the older, senior name: San Pedro would sit beneath it as a variety, and a good deal of what is sold as peruvianus would be absorbed too.
Words that go with it
- EpithetThe second half of a two-word botanical name: the pachanoi in Trichocereus pachanoi.
- EchinopsisThe other genus name these plants get filed under.
- Variety (var.)A botanical rank below the species: a form that keeps its own look in the wild, the way…
- 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.
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