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Hello everyone. :)

I found this cactus, and I instantly thought that it looked like a species of interest. Take a look for yourselves (sorry for poor photos, just had cameraphone at the time):

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I also posted this thread on the nexus in the n00b section.

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a sexy beast

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its in a botanical gardens by the look of some of the photo`s.

Your sure to piss off some people if you hack a cutting off it.

And im sure they`d like to hack your fingers off if you pinched it.....

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Thanks for the quick replies.

Now the problem, is that it was labelled as a Cereus Uruguayanus. I'm pretty sure it's not. It definitely looks tricho to me. And it looks nothing like any of the Cereus Uruguayanus photos I've seen:

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And lastly, I tasted a little piece I scratched off under my fingernail. It tasted a little bit bitter. Are all cacti bitter?

Edit: Yes, it is in a botanical garden. I'm pretty sure they'd let me take one of the pups from the other ones (there were a few more of these) if I paid for it, I mean they do have a garden centre attached to the premises. :)

Edited by bluntmuffin

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there are some kiwi members here and im sure that they would help you out with some cuttings of some nice cacti!!

this looks to me like what its labeled a cereus of some sort........

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Which one looks like a cereus?

And yeah, I'd very much like to buy some cuttings from the kiwi members. I just have a few pachanoi plants of differing lineage at the moment.

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ahhh now i get ya, im slow :blush:

last one looks cerues, first post is a tricho peruvianus imho.

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Yeah, the last one is a cereus for sure. Those photos are off 'Cacti of Hawaii' website.

It does then seem to me that the first cactus is intentionally mislabelled. It wasn't just the one either, every single one was mislabelled. Only their scops were labelled correctly as Trichocereus. There was also a 'Cereus Jamacaru' that upon further research also appears to be anomalous. It had 8 ribs (research says Jamacaru doesn't get more than 6), and it's spines were more akin to the bottom spines of the first cactus. Above the spines - where you'd expect to find the v indentation, there was a darkish v shape, very vaguely. So if they intentionally mislabelled this one too, then I'd guess it's a hybrid of their peruvianus and their scops. :)

I have photos of this anomalous Cereus if anyone cares.

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Okay, here's this other anomalous cactus. I'm pretty sure it's yellow because it's malnourished, needs some magnesium maybe?

Botanical garden photos:

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Real Cereus Jamacaru:

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a tricho of some kind maybe a really under fertilized macrogonus?????

but yeah im not a expert, still getting my cactus eye...

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What a mislabel! You could get the real Cereus uruguayanus and do a night time swap , youd be doing the poor old near sighted biddys a favour :P

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i think they might`ve done it on purpose... :scratchhead:

if not its pretty piss poor effort for a botanical garden :blink::unsure:

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botanical gardens dont really seem to look after there cacti in nz ae,

the dunedin one is a shocka they havent seen a drip of water in donkeys ears, i feel obliged to water my favourites whenever i visit the glasshouse.

poor guys.

and that really yellow one that someone said might be a really undernourished macro - my boyfriend has one just like that - same yellow stunted lookingness, i will post a pic of it growing healthy if it ever starts to.

kea

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