trichocereus glaucus

[zelly]

Blue-gray stems with 7-9 ribs and spines as long as 1.5″. The spines are at first amber red then turn black and eventually gray.

Describes this one to a T as in Tricho

And given as skinny as it is, I could see where it would go prostrate with age.

[M S Smith]

Humm, got any other info on your plant there zelly? I must admit, I'm a little thrown off by it, particularly by the areole spacing...I'm not even sure it's a Trichocereus to tell you the truth.

~Michael~

[cactuscarl]

I've got three labled as glaucas a blue one a green kk (336?) And that red spined thing pictured which I thought we a hybrid I'll take some pics and see what yous think.

[Stillman]

PD had one he called glaucus. I had some seeds but somewhere along the line I lost/killed them.

[mutant]

zelly what you show looks to my eyes like the same clone as the one Michael showed.

Nice plant! I'd love to trade a cutting , than I would prove areole spacing is not a problem

[solaritea]

I bought this from Sacred Succulents in 2001. I believe the label said it was T peruvianus from seed. Recently I ID'd it as T. chalaensis (hence the label on the pic) based on columnar-cacti.org and a plant at the Berkeley Botanical Garden. It looks a lot like the T. glaucus pictured here though.

Any thoughts about the differences between chalaensis and glaucus?

[woof woof woof]

I wonder if Knize still answers his emails.... or that he is even alive still,.... last time I think I emailed with a daughter of his.....

[woof woof woof]

his site is down,.... probably either muerto or spending his last soles in a hooker bar..........drinking beer and trippin on cacti

[mutant]

solaritea>> in my eyes it seems again like the same or similar clone as shown above my Smith and zelly.

so

chalaensis = true glaucus ?

kk336 / Knize glaucus = some glaucus phenotype of macrogonus ?

thanks for input

I was looking again at my " KK336 T.glaucus "

Its true it would be ID'ed as some form of peruvianus or macrogonus, whatever you consider a true species. But it has special traits. Very round and very protruding areoles / a tubercled bumb for each areole .

I should say more when I bring it next to the rest of my peruv / macros

[M S Smith]

Still not sure about that one plant, but I might agree with the idea that T. chalensis and T. glaucus are closely related if not the same species or variations thereof.

~Michael~

[zelly]

Michael, here's some more pics of the above plant...

And here's a pic of what I have labeled as T glauca

[woof woof woof]

Zelly the T.Glauca you have there is what I know as T.Glaucus form the cuttings I received from Knize in 2002. Unfortunately they were not very happy campers and rotted in the wet season.

[slice]

I thought it was syn. to Uyupampensis...

[Evil Genius]

Hi Slice, no it is not. Trichocereus Glauca FR is a very diffrent plant. The plants that are being sold as Trichocereus Glaucus or Glauca are mostly glaucous Peruvianus or Bridgesii. The one in Zellys pics is most likely the plant that Friedrich Ritter described as Trichocereus Glaucus. Will have to get the shitty pics that i have from that plant but it looks a lot like it. It also looks a lot like Trichocereus Chalaensis and Trichocereus Glauca could, like michael suggested, be close to the very variable Group of plants that are labeled Trichocereus Chilensis. Glaucus is an extremely interesting Cactus. bye Eg

[Auxin]

I forgot to photograph them before bringing in for winter

[Evil Genius]