Glossary
Trichocereus
Growers describe it as the group of tall columnar cacti native to the Andes, which includes San Pedro. The name refers to the hairy flowers and fruit, growers say.
Words that go with it
- DegraftingGrowers call it cutting a grafted top off its rootstock so it can grow on its own roots.
- EchinopsisThe other genus name these plants get filed under.
- EpithetThe second half of a two-word botanical name: the pachanoi in Trichocereus pachanoi.
- GerminationGrowers call it a seed coming to life and pushing out its first root.
- HybridGrowers call it a plant grown from the seed of a cross between two different plants.
- PereskiopsisGrowers call it a thin, leafy, fast-growing cactus used as grafting stock for seedlings.
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Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0) and from @sanpedromastery6262 on YouTube.
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