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Glossary

Pachanoi

Growers call it the species most people mean by "San Pedro". Usually six to eight broad rounded ribs and short sparse spines, growers say.

Where you meet it: Species

Drawing of a pachanoi-type column: broad, with low rounded ribs, almost no spines, and a small notch in the rib above each areole. Named on the drawing: areole, rib, notch.areoleribnotch
The form the name Pachanoi describes. A drawing of the kind of plant, not of any one plant.

This one is a species

The line above is the short answer. The species page has the whole picture — what separates it from the others, the names in the library that carry it, and what is growing in the yard.

Pachanoi in full →

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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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