Cacti ID please

[ENtiTY]

I was directed by a like minded person to some old cacti in my local area. The gentleman I spoke to said they were all 22 years old. Some very impressive examples at any rate. I am fairly sure I have ID'd 2 of them and narrowed the genus on the rest.

Cerus peruvianus?

T. Pachanoi That water tank on stiltz to the right of the first pic stood at least 5m tall. Hard to see in the pic but the pach towered over the tank by a meter or so

Tricho of some description I think

Astro's I think. Unfamiliar with Ario's and Astro's as of yet so I'm not sure. Will get a button or 2 of each at some point down the track What ever they are they are f'ing huge!

Spoils of war This is the booty I recovered after discovering the treasure! All the pach was on the ground as was the CP and the smaller piece of the unknown Tricho. I snagged a fresh pup of the unknown Tricho in case it turned out to be interesting, should be good for grafting stock at any rate. There is a heap more CP on the ground so I'll get another load when I have more cash. You can see where the gentleman cut logs off in the first CP pic. He smashed his head into the branches that were attached to where those cuts are while mowing on a ride on and not looking where he was going YOUCH!!! Hence the reason for their no longer being attached

If anyone could let me know what the cacti are in the pics that I'm unsure about that would be awesome!

Edited February 19, 2008 by Harry

[tonic]

Cool collection Harry.

The first one looks sort of like T. cuzcoensis to me. Not sure.

Nice big Pedro.

The next is, I am fairly certain a Myrtillocactus sp. possibly M. geometrizans. A good grafting stock.

The one you said looks an Astro is Parodia magnifica does sort of resemble a large A. myriostigma in a way though. The darker green clumping one below it (in the other pics too?) Is an Echinopsis sp. not sure which species, a lot of them look fairly similiar to me. Someone else might know? They have nice flowers at any rate. And easy to propagate from cuttings/pups.

Looks like you scored some decent cutttings there mate. Nice one!

EDIT: Actually, looking at the one I said resembled T. cuzcoensis in the pic with just the cuttings in it. Looks more like the ribs of a Cereus sp. don't think it's C. peruvianus though, the spines are all wrong. Not sure on that one.

Edited February 19, 2008 by Phosphene_Dream

[Evil Genius]

Hi Harry, i´ll have a look on the pics as soon as i have more time. The first plant seems to be a pachycereus! New spine growth is a little bit red colored, yeah? 3 and 4 is some kind of Trichocereus Pachanoi! The clumping one on the 7th and the 8th pic is a Echinopsis! bye Eg

[M S Smith]

The first series looks to be Stenocereus griseus. The second series T. pachanoi. The third series Myrtillocactus geometrizans. And the last series looks like Parodia magnifica (background) and a clumping Echinopsis (foreground).

~Michael~

[ENtiTY]

Thanx peeps Alsmost forgot about the thread lol. The Stenocereus griseus seems to have a fairly decent growth rate as its got the most mass out of the 3 columnar caci for the time period. I shall see if I can get some more for grafting stock Has it been used for this purpose by anyone here?

Thanx again.

[mark80]

Paradio magnifica is also known as notocatus magnifica, echnopisis looks like a seminudum.