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Echinopsis peruviana


Common Name(s): San Pedro Macho
Synonym(s): Trichocereus peruvianus, Trichocereus puquiensis, Echinopsis puquiensis, Trichocereus tacnaensis, Trichocereus torataensis
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Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Trichocereeae
Distribution: Peru (South America)
Habit: Shrubby-Treelike
Flower: WhiteEncounterability: Common Worldwide
Original Description: The Cactaceae 2 p.136 - Britton & Rose (1920)
Plant 2 to 4 meters high with numerous erect or ascending, stout branches, 15 to 20 cm in diameter, glaucous when young; ribs 6 to 8, broad and rounded; areoles large, 2 to 2.5 cm apart, brown-felted; spines brown from teh first, about 10, unequal, some of them 4 cm long, rigid and stout, not at all swollen at base; areoles on ovary and flower-tube hairy; mature flowers not seen but evidently large and probably white.
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Echinopsis peruviana
E. peruviana
Picture taken at: Byron Fan's Private Collection

Photographer: Byron Fan
Echinopsis peruviana
E. peruviana
Picture taken at: Kyle Barker's Private Collection

Photographer: Kyle Barker

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Echinopsis peruviana
E. peruviana
Picture taken at: Kyle Barker's Private Collection

Photographer: Kyle Barker

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Echinopsis peruviana
E. peruviana
Picture taken at: Private Collection

Photographer: Joel Lode

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