ID: pasacana or terschekii?

[mu!]

What do you amazing minds think about this one? The wonky spines are interesting how they go off in all directions all wire-like. Its not a bad looking cactus found in some random's frontyard.

[Micromegas]

Sweet, does it belong to you now?

That is neither a true tersheckii nor pasacana as neither would pup from the base at such short stature. Could be a pasacana/tersheckii hybridized with a schickendanzii (ground clumper) to make it clump and also be fat and spiny.

Dos that make any sense?

I have a few like this, I don't call them anything but they look gnarly.

Edited September 24, 2010 by Micromegas

[bℓσωηG]

T.chilensis ?

[mutant]

beautiful cactus!

lets not forget the X wendermanianus possibility, totally different spines though....

[bit]

Overall form reminds me of my pseudocandicans, but the spines are whiter and longer.

[mu!]

Sweet, does it belong to you now?

That is neither a true tersheckii nor pasacana as neither would pup from the base at such short stature. Could be a pasacana/tersheckii hybridized with a schickendanzii (ground clumper) to make it clump and also be fat and spiny.

Dos that make any sense?

I have a few like this, I don't call them anything but they look gnarly.

 

perfect sense.

Yeh its a crazy looking cactus. Its not in my posession at the moment but I might ask the owner for it next time I'm up that way coz it would stand out a bit in a sea of tricho's

[solomon]

looks like my (pseudo)candicans too.

[prier]

I call that plant candicans long spine.

In Backeberg he calls it T. candicans v. gladiatus (Lem.) Berg. The same name appears in Borg.

Britton and Rose group all subspecies into T. candicans.

In more recent times it's been called Echinopsis candicans in both Anderson and The new lexicon.

found a refence to both T. pseudocandicans and Helianthocereus candicans. seems to be a redundant name.