Species
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.
71 names in the library8 grown here
What to look at
- Ribs
- Reportedly six to eight, broad at the base and blunt rather than sharp.
- Areoles
- Reportedly roughly one and a half to two and a half centimeters apart, each one a pad of white felt.
- Spines
- Reportedly short, and there are not many of them.
- Skin
- Reportedly mid to dark green with a matte finish, and no powdery bloom over it.
- Habit
- Reportedly upright and branching, and reaching about six meters in habitat.
- Girth
- Reportedly a mature section commonly runs about thirteen centimeters — five inches — across.
Every feature on this page moves with age, sun and water. None of it settles an identity on its own, a clone name is not proof of a species, and a photograph is a pointer rather than an answer.
Growing here
The mother plants this yard cuts from, in this group.
Names in the library
The seal draws the plant behind the name where the ring can mark it: the ribs, the spines, the growth form. A plain ring has nothing marked on it.
The others
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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