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Heavy Images: 40 year old Cactus Garden

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Hi,

I paid a visit to an amazing 40 year old garden with the biggest columnars I ever seen, some real authentic South American seed grown plants, some looks pretty rare varieties which I never seen before. If someone can confirm the ID of these plants it would be awesome.

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3rd row down, 3rd pic across, :drool2: variegated :drool2: peruvi :drool2:

Cheers pacha, any info on origins or labelled names?

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2nd row... I'm going to guess Trichocereus taquimbalensis or a form of Trichocereus cuzcoensis of some type.

2nd to last pic is Cephalocereus or Coleocephalocereus or possibly Espostoa, note the cephalium. Not sure which.

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:drool2: amazing garden pacha!

you seem to find a nice new cactus garden every week,where abouts in the middle east are you from?

san p

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Nice pics

last picture the clump on the left of the fat cactus looks to be Stenocereus marginatus

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This Garden is located in Israel where I am, it was belong to some old guy who started it all from seeds 40 years ago. The dude recently died and the collection was offered for sale on the web by his children. They would prefer to sell the whole cacti and not cuttings but I don't see any other choice they have, these are truely magnificent and rare plants, too bad they want to destroy what they accomplished to get such sizes, some of these plants are 8 meters high like the one in the 1st pic on the 1st row, can someone ID it? Anyone has a clue about the crested cactus on the 2nd pic?

Now I will try to give some IDs to what I found on the internet:

I believe you are right Teotz, pics 3 to 6 is Tacaquirensis or its sub specie Taquimbalensis. What about pics 7 to 9, it's a different plant can someone ID please?

Pics 10 to 12 is Blue Peruvianus, one of the branches did form variegated. Could be 13 14 is Myrtillocactus Monstrose form?

Can anyone ID pics 15 and the ones on pic 16 except the PC of course. Pic 17 I believe is Trichocereus Chalaensis. Can anyone ID pics 18 and 19?

In my opinion pic 20 is a beautiful Terschekii.

In this garden I met the Owners son, the garden has not been taken care of after the owner died. His son doesn't like cacti because his father made him work there and this way he never had the passion for it. Now they decided to sell it and hope to get good money on whole specimens, but I don't think it is realistic to tear these huge trees just like that without harming them and who would pay so much money for moving them. They will eventually have to sell anything by cuttings. So... me and my friend paid a little visit and got us some healthy looking cuttings to glorify these plants and not let them wither.

BTW, if M.S.Smith is reading, I'd appreciate your ID expertise. ;)

The cuttings I got:

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2nd row, 4th pic - very interesting how 90% of the plant looks regular, with that one crested stem :D

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Mad photos!!!

Thanks for sharing :drool2: . I need land :)

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Wow, great garden, impressive sizes!!!!

Moving these giants would be a REAL pain in the ass. And that's literal. Thanks a lot for input Pacha!

I think photos 7,8,9 are from a large beautiful Stretsonia coryne, the toothpick cactus...

Arent 13-14 the common cereus peruv mosntrosa ?? Looks a lot like it...

What about that last one, is it a pachycereus [pringley?] or some fatty trich.

I agree on Stenocereus marginatus.

And oh, are 10-11 a big bridgesii or just short spined perus??

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