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Trichocereus sp.

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Hello All, I picked up a few of these guys the other day. Thought the looked cool and had some wicked spines, and were labeled Trichocereus sp.. Any idea of a better ID on these guys? They are still relatively small at about 12-13 cm tall right now...Thanks for the help :-)

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Hi T-trich! That could be a pseudolobivia, now called Lobivia! Awesome plants for hybrids! Love em! Another thought could be trichocereus tacaquirensis but it needs to get bigger to rule that out. Rather think its the tricholike lobivia!

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Hey, I got one of these too. Definitely stood out as a unique plant.

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minus the semi tubercled areoles, it does look like a mini version of pasacana... wouldn't say tacaquirensis though...

I wont rule pasacana out...

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I saw some older plants at the nursery last week that were getting pretty hairy, and despite the Trichocereus sp. tag the owner said it's an Oreocereus. Here's mine.

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Thanks everyone for the help. I had my doubts about the Trichocereus sp. label. Thanks Solaritea for the update.....

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Could it be a trichocereus escayachensis?

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Don´t think it´s a Trichocereus because I found pics of very similar Oreocereus seedlings. They tend to have very little hairs as seedlings so right now, Oreocereus is a really good name for the plant. Well, if it produces some hairs later on. If it is an Oreocereus, this is the one that was called "Oreocereus Maximus". I have an overview pic of it´s spines on the page about Trichocereus Taquimbalensis on trichocereus.net and it shows how similar they are to some of the large Trichos, like Taquimbalensis and Tacaquirensis. O. Maximus is no longer an accepted species and they are integrated in Oreocereus celsianus. I cannot see if it has hairs or not, but if it produces some at any point later, the ID was correct. It

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