T. peruvianus?

[tripsis]

Hi,

I bought these at Kmart the other day. They are from Hamilton's and the tag states that they are Trichocereus peruvianus. I was wondering if anyone could confirm this?

Number 1:

Number 2:

I've always been more familiar with T. peruvianus having a glaucous apearance, but I've noticed new growth doesn't have it and thus wondered if young plants lacked the glaucous appearance too. Is this the case? Other than that, they look like they could be T. peruvianus to me, but I'm too new to this to really know.

Any help is appreciated.

Also, I picked up this beautiful flowering Echinocereus at the same time. Anyone able to tell me which species it is?

Thanks!

[Ace]

1 and 2 definately fit the bill so far. It is always hard to tell exactly how they'll turn out as mature plants, but that's the best part of buying seedlings. Genetically unique specimens that will have different traits from those currently in circulation.

Hamiltons have been putting out a lot of these recently, as well as plenty of bridgesii seedlings. These are more likely to be peruvianus than pachanoi or bridgesii, at least going off their immature spination.

[tripsis]

Awesome, thanks very much.

[paradox]

probably more likely cuzcoensis then peruvianus though, no?

[mac]

probably more likely cuzcoensis then peruvianus though, no?

i guess its a bit early to tell , i would expect cuzcoensis to have more of a green coloration to the new spine growth ? I find the new spines & some of the older spines on my cuzco very delicate & easily knocked off if your not careful , much more so than any other cacti i own

Edited September 13, 2009 by mac

[tripsis]

Thanks for the replies.

What are the defining differences between cuzcoensis and peruvianus?