Species
Peruvianus
A species also called Peruvian Torch, growers say. Longer, stouter spines than pachanoi and often a strong blue bloom, growers say. Has many regional forms named after where they came from.
29 names in the library3 grown here
What to look at
- Ribs
- Reportedly usually six to eight.
- Areoles
- Reportedly large and prominent.
- Spines
- Reportedly longer and stouter than a pachanoi's.
- Skin
- Reportedly frequently a glaucous blue-gray, and the bloom is heaviest on the newest growth at the tip.
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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