From Backebergs Trichocereus Lexicon, T. spachianus (Lem.) Rice. (1)
Ba. branching from below, to over 2 in h.; branches ascending, to over one meter long., to over 6 cm 25; Ri. 10-15, rounded, fairly low; Ar. yellowish at first, later white; Rap. 8—10, 6 mm to 1 cm long., acicular, stiff, sharp; Cap. 1 (—3), stouter, longer; Sp. amber to brownish; H. e. 20 cm long., 15 cm 25, white.—Argentina (Mendoza; San Juan; La Rioja; San Luis; Jujuy, and found here by Frau Muhr, near Leon).
For a long time this was the most commonly used grafting stock, and it still is so on the Riviera, etc.; however it is more readily exhausted and more quickly becomes corky than T. pachanoi, which is now preferred because it lacks sharp Sp.; the latter does not lignify, grows in circumference with the scion, readily accepts the latter, and is usually quite spineless.
This thing grows everywhere around here. Alot of people have it in their gardens. I have a few of these going, the big one I found growing wild on the side of the road up in the mountains about an hour south of here. The little ones come from a plant I found growing in an alley a few blocks away. Really attractive plants, a clumpers with a metre or so high column. Good ornamental and for grafting ~*
Ba. branching from below, to over 2 in h.; branches ascending, to over one meter long., to over 6 cm 25; Ri. 10-15, rounded, fairly low; Ar. yellowish at first, later white; Rap. 8—10, 6 mm to 1 cm long., acicular, stiff, sharp; Cap. 1 (—3), stouter, longer; Sp. amber to brownish; H. e. 20 cm long., 15 cm 25, white.—Argentina (Mendoza; San Juan; La Rioja; San Luis; Jujuy, and found here by Frau Muhr, near Leon).
For a long time this was the most commonly used grafting stock, and it still is so on the Riviera, etc.; however it is more readily exhausted and more quickly becomes corky than T. pachanoi, which is now preferred because it lacks sharp Sp.; the latter does not lignify, grows in circumference with the scion, readily accepts the latter, and is usually quite spineless.
This thing grows everywhere around here. Alot of people have it in their gardens. I have a few of these going, the big one I found growing wild on the side of the road up in the mountains about an hour south of here. The little ones come from a plant I found growing in an alley a few blocks away. Really attractive plants, a clumpers with a metre or so high column. Good ornamental and for grafting ~*
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