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Trichocereus id please

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Would love to get some opinions on this one, seed grown by a friends grandfather over 30 years ago.

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Cheers :)

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Hey mate, amazing plant. Two options. Trichocereus Chilensis, which is very similar. The spination is similar. But the overall look reminds me more of this one. http://trichocereus.net/bk08601-1-trichocereus-sp-isla-del-sol-bolivia/

And the one in the link, I think is a Cuzcoensis or a related species. This is awesome and I hope that you´ll be able to witness the flowers. Looking for seed of this type, because it´s one of my favorites from the Sacred Succulents Field Trips.

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is chilensis thought of as close to arboricola?

i get a slight arboricola vibe from your plant but i don't know arboricola well enough yet,

just from zellys pics rlly ..

-I havent grown it knowingly to get to know it in person yet...

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Yeah they are similar. But Arboricola is a hanging basket cactus and doesn´t get that big.

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But Arboricola is a hanging basket cactus and doesn´t get that big.

I somewhat disagree. My biggest arbi is pushin 77 cm tall & shows no signs of being hanging basket material...

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this one is 61 cm or so

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and this one is perfectly sized (growing in a 10cm pot) for shipping O/S

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It can grow columnar for a while but at some point, it will grow creeping, clumping or leaning over. Potted plants usually lose their natural shape for a while but if you put it in the ground it will end up looking like this:

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And this is what a similar sized Arboricola would look like. Still somehwat columnar but leaning over and not really such a strong spination. It has those fine, needle like spines. Have a look at the short distance between the areoles. Zelly, your plant is the only one who has some similarity to Interbeings plant. All other Arboricolas I know look totally different. I mean, maybe your´s is a hybrid or a different subspecies or something like that. I am definitely interested in seeing a flower and a seed pod of this one. Maybe it´s a Arboricola hybrid but it´s already bigger than Arboricola should be and has a really strong spination, compared to what I know from this species. It´s overall appearance is closer to cuzcoensis that Arboricola. But I agree that Zellys plant looks similar at that age and how he grows them. It has really strong spines.

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That is a beauty interbeing.

Closest I have is T. glaucus from SAB webstore several year ago.

But this one you have is prettier.

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Beautiful... Would need some size comparison to really through a guess... is it a terscheckii at its left?

I would say a hybrid... throwing a hard guess .... maybe 'Validus' x cuzcoensis ? :P

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