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Trichocereus ID please

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Got an awesome cactus today. Wondering if people can help out with an ID. :)

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Yup, T. candicans.

~Michael~

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looks much different than my candicans

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from Andersons The Cactus Family (p 261)


Plants shrubby with many stems, forming clumps 1-3 m in diameter. Stems cylindrical, erect or spreading, rounded apically, light green, to 60 cm long and 14 cm in diameter.

Huntington Botanical Gardens

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imo zeds plant looks like a singular stem & too 'mature' to not be clumping which seems to be one identifying feature of candicans.

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Hi Zelly, yeah, there is more than one Type of Candicans. That´s why Backeberg tried pushing through his Trichocereus Neocandicans. This is the type that is very closely related to Trichocereus Lamprochlorus. It´s absolutely not clumping. But still a Candicans. There are like 30 Varities of Candicans. As you can see, you have a Varietiy Robustor in your Pic of the Huntingtons. And there are a whole lot more that look totally different. Clumping, not clumping, white, multicolored, and so on.

And Andersons Book used the newest Taxonomy, which lumps a couple of similar Plants into Candicans.

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Well it's a fairly variable species overall and zeds plant looks to be in a tiny container which might be limiting pupping. Echinopsis lamprochlorus maybe?

~Michael~

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Hi Michael, well yes and no. This is a Plant that is closely related to Lamprochlorus but the species is most likely synonymous with Candicans. Again, there are a couple of confirmed Candicans in botanical Gardens that look SO not like the One in Zellys first Pic and there is a whole lot of Variety in Candicans. It´s one of the species that have the greatest Amount of Natural Hybrids too.

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heres a pic of the HBG Lamprochlorus

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Thanks for the info EG...and nice picture!

~Michael~

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Looking through my pictures, I found these that a friend took at the Berkeley Botanical Garden. Labeled E. candicans 90.1341.

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st- that spiny one sure looks a lot like lumberjack

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