BK10508.1

also known as Huachuma, San Pedro
A · well documentedDocumentation grade: AOrigin traceable to a named source, with a date, locality or institutional accession number behind it.
name drift low · name is stableName drift risk: lowThis name is used consistently. A cutting sold under it is very likely the plant described here.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES
Upright columns to 10ft+, small spines, large white flowers, edible fruit. Green to blue-grey-green stems.
LINEAGE

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ORIGIN

Locality:base of Cerro San Pedro, about 1 mile from the Martin Cardenas Botanical Garden, Cochabamba, Bolivia, ~8,500ft

Origin note:A common clone around Cochabamba City in central Bolivia, possibly brought to the region during the Incan colonisation in the 1400s. Collected growing with Puya mirabilis, Cleistocactus buchtienii and Carica quercifolia. Rare in cultivation, Sacred Succulents normally offer only a handful of small cuttings a year.

STORY
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NOTES
Field accession.
PHOTO LINKS
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SPECIES
Sacred Succulents record it as Trichocereus aff. pachanoi. They note it looks distinct from the pachanoi of Peru and Ecuador although local botanists call it pachanoi, and that it also shows affinity with some riomizquensis clones.
RECORD
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Year
2010
How it started
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