Hi Guys, now that I can post images, can I get an ID or two?

[Ace]

Hello All-Knowing Ones

can someone help me ID these cuttings i received a few days ago? Just magnificent specimens

And any idea what this little bewdy might be? possibly cereus? any further ideas?

Thanks for the help guys and/or gals

[Dirty Old Man]

Very nice!

Looks like peruvianus to me.

[Ace]

Very nice!

Looks like peruvianus to me.

Even with the knobbly sort of ribs? I know this could just be a location/breeding/etc variation. Thanks for the help DOM

Hmmm... anyone else got ideas?

[Ace]

Another tiny pup that has started to root and is now beginning to grow again:

any ideas on species? this is another one of my favourites

Also, these are from bunnings and k-mart:

once again, any ideas? the large one was labelled as a trich. species - the small ones not labelled.

p.s. sorry for the poor quality pics

[gerbil]

first one looks like a trich bridgesii (E. lageniformis); doesn't look monstrose, looks more columnar, losing it's 5th rib changing to 4 ribs?!

seedlings; the one on the far left possibly terscheckii; other two maybe some sort or pachanoid/scop possibly?

[Ace]

first one looks like a trich bridgesii (E. lageniformis); doesn't look monstrose, looks more columnar, losing it's 5th rib changing to 4 ribs?!

seedlings; the one on the far left possibly terscheckii; other two maybe some sort or pachanoid/scop possibly?

Sweet - I was really hoping the pup was a bridgesii (my only one!). Unfortunately, I dont think she's changing to 4 ribs - the 5th small rib had some sort of bug eat out the bottom half, so it looks like that rib has a chunk taken out (though its calloused over and healthy again). The rib is growing fine now from the apical meristem, so no bridgesii of the four winds for me (at least not yet muhahahaha!)

The big seedling (roughly the size of a tennis ball ) is probably a terscheckii as you had pointed out - I was looking thru the old ID threads and found some very similar ones that had been ID'ed the same.

Any Ideas on that flowering one up the top? I'm still thinking a cereus of some sort, though havent found any ID-able comparisons on the net yet... Got some more pics of her in flower - beautiful flowers! Happy to post in the Gallery if anyone's interested

Thanks again Gerbil - your a champ!

[gerbil]

i'm not great with cacti; they do my head in lol

possibly knuthianus (spelling??) or a peruvianus (kk242 ???) as already said.

[Ace]

i'm not great with cacti; they do my head in lol

possibly knuthianus (spelling??) or a peruvianus (kk242 ???) as already said.

Sorry Gerbil,

I actually meant the one in the pot (I think you are talking about the cuttings on the gold background - or I may just be interpretting it all wrong ) Cheers!

[strangebrew]

The one flowering in the pot is definately a Cereus.

I'm wondering if the cuttings could be T. cuzcoensis. Is there swelling at the bottoms of the large lower spines where they join the areole?

[Ace]

The one flowering in the pot is definately a Cereus.

I'm wondering if the cuttings could be T. cuzcoensis. Is there swelling at the bottoms of the large lower spines where they join the areole?

Thanks Strangebrew,

I just had a look on http://www.columnar-cacti.org/ and found two very similar ones to the cuttings-

T. Chilensis:

and

T. Cuzcoensis:

It may even be a cross between the two or more likely just a different version of one of the above

Though Chilensis appears to have much larger smination, the knobbly ribs seem to fit the description more...

[M S Smith]

Looks like the "T. knuthianus" you folks have down in Australia. Whether or not it is what name it actually goes under is beyond me. It doesn't look like the stateside T. knuthianus from Sacred Succulents. It does looks a bit like the SS03.

~Michael~

[nothinghead]

Where did you get the cuttings? I have seen a cutting almost identical to the first one on the left which was sold as peruvianus.

[Ace]

Thanks for the replies guys. I got the cuttings off a foaf's foaf who has a rather nice specimen. Probably cant get pics of the mother plant though... If I am able to, I'll try to get a few more cuttings too

Does anyone know if this species may be active?

[strangebrew]

Does anyone know if this species may be active?

Taste it for bitterness. A KK242 is known to have little whereas I imagine the SS03 has some and I don't know about cuzcoensis in general.

I have some difficulty in distinguishing the couple of SS03 photo's I have seen from KK242.

Photo's courtesy of Trout

SS03 cuzcoensis(is this a KK242?)

a bumpy cuzcoensis

Edited December 8, 2006 by strangebrew

[strangebrew]

And a couple of supposedly knuthianus photo's from here and the web.

[Ace]

Taste it for bitterness. A KK242 is known to have little whereas I imagine the SS03 has some and I don't know about cuzcoensis in general.

I'll have to have a taste me thinks. Until then, I think it may be the cuzcoensis. Is this a fairly common species? I've never run into it before, just wondering if anyone else had?

[M S Smith]

The spines are way off for it to be a T. cuzcoensis in my view. Certainly you can see the heavier spination on the older sections, and this is common to many Trichocereus, but unlike T. cuzcoensis, or other general T. peruvianus sorts, yours basically has 2 or 3, sometimes 4, spines per areole on the newer growth. One thing for sure, that is one really awesome plant.

~Michael~

[strangebrew]

In all likelihood it is this rare beasty - T. australis-bumpianus.