Here is a wide and closeup of my new wild Matucana pachanoi pup.
Here is the original mother of this pre-collection in habitat:
And here is the same of my new pananoi var. L.E.R.
The LER I got from Mallacht is WAY fatter than the three I got directly from L.E.R. back in the 90's. The spines seem smaller too, but that is going from memory. They might have been selling cuttings from several seed-grown or separately selected clones. I wouldn't have purchased them at all but they put a "sale" flyer in with some seeds I had purchased.