T. pach or sub species?

Got this huge fat T. pach recently, well at lest I think it is, the spines are slightly bigger than normal pach spines @ (biggest) 5mm, but I suppose they are relevant to the size of the plant.
The photos are taken at an angle where the plant is looking its skinniest, its about 17cm to 18cm at the base and yes it needs a much bigger pot, bring on spring

sorry for huge pics

San Rainbow wrote:

sorry for huge pics

huge plant = huge pics! very nice

no idea on trichos but nice Epithelanthas

lewis wrote:

no idea on trichos but nice Epithelanthas

cheers, they are one of my faves! pm me if you ever want to let any go

Kinda looks like a scop. But looks alot like the Backeberg clone of San Pedro too. Possibly a hybrid.

Looks like it's about 6-7 inch in diameter so am going to have to say scop if it's that fat.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/msscacti/819777099/

Here is a photo comparing the short spined T. scopulicola and T. cordobensis. Take a look and see what ya think.

Looks like Scop to me have a little one with little or no spines like bob-bob's

bob-bob wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/msscacti/819777099/

Here is a photo comparing the short spined T. scopulicola and T. cordobensis. Take a look and see what ya think.

yea kinda looks more like T. cordobensis...

cheers bob bob

Nice looking plants including the copiapoas

now it looks like a normal pach trig



cheers cal

Sorry San, I had to edit the size of your pics, was really really annoying me. Hope you don't mind.

People you can resize your pics in the editor, it's really easy and it prevents me from getting annoyed about large pics too

trigonus wrote:

Sorry San, I had to edit the size of your pics, was really really annoying me. Hope you don't mind.

no probs mate, it was annoying me to!

Looks to me to be the standard Backeberg clone of E. Pachanoi. It can be slightly varied, it was probably a cutting off an older plant. When you repot it check to see whether it was seed grown, but I highly doubt it.

If you really think it is something else my guess would be E. sp. 'Super Pedro', that's pretty similar to E. pachanoi but slightly fatter.

cheers prier, have been looking @ pics on the net but there is to much variance for me to ID.

cheers

Hey San Rainbow.
Would it be impolite to ask how much a big beast like that cost you?

Looks a bit different from Super Pedro to my eyes, but I can see where prier is coming from as it has a distinct scop look about it.

I think Sup Ped has pretty much been lumped into the T. scopulicola/T. cordobensis group at this stage. I am pretty happy to admit that it is a T. cordobensis (Sup Ped) or a variation or hybrid thereof.

Still think it's a hybrid, though good old Backeberg clone does get quite fat when ground grown and well fed.

Where's PD? He will probably have a good idea of what it could be.

Roger The Dog wrote:

Would it be impolite to ask how much a big beast like that cost you?

No not at all, I picked it up for $60 from a local nursery, bargain ah .
They didn't seem to have any others just your standard T. Pach, I was pretty lucky...

trigonus wrote:

Where's PD? He will probably have a good idea of what it could be.

yea I was hoping he would have a nudge.

Its "super pedro".

Grows much much fatter than regular T pach, has very different spination.

cheers all