The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . ents oblong, white; filaments long, weak, greenish; style greenish below, white above; stigma-lobes linear, yellowish; ovary covered with black curled hairs; axils of scales on flower-tube and fruitbearing long black hairs. Collected by J. N. Rose, A. Pachano, and George Rose at Cuenca, Ecuador, September17 to 24, 1918 (No. 22806, type). This species is widely cultivated throughout the Andean region of Ecuador, where it isgrown both as an ornamental and as a hedge plant. In some of the lateral valleys on thewestern
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . ents oblong, white; filaments long, weak, greenish; style greenish below, white above; stigma-lobes linear, yellowish; ovary covered with black curled hairs; axils of scales on flower-tube and fruitbearing long black hairs. Collected by J. N. Rose, A. Pachano, and George Rose at Cuenca, Ecuador, September17 to 24, 1918 (No. 22806, type). This species is widely cultivated throughout the Andean region of Ecuador, where it isgrown both as an ornamental and as a hedge plant. In some of the lateral valleys on thewestern slope of the Andes it appears to be native, as for instance above Alausi, but as ithas doubtless long been cultivated it is impossible to be sure of its natural habitat. It is known to the Ecuadoreans as agua-colla or giganton and has been passing in Ecua-dor under the names of Cereus peruvianas and Cereus giganteus. It is named for ProfessorAbelardo Pachano of the Quinta Normal at Ambato, Ecuador, who accompanied Dr. Rosein 1918 on his travels in the high Andes of Fig. 196.—Trichocereus pachanoi. This species belongs to the high Andes, ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 meters in the Chanchan Valley it certainly comes down to about 2,000 meters and overlaps theupper range of Lemaireocereus godingianus, which differs from it greatly in habit and as the two plants are, Richard Spruce, keen botanist as he was, confused them,as the following quotation will show; the part in italics refers to the Lemaireocereus: The brown hill-sides began to be diversified by an arborescent Cactus, with polygonal stemsand white dahlia-like flowers, ?which, Briareus-like, threw wide into the air its hundred rude down, at about 6,000 feet, I saw specimens full 30 feel high and 18 inches in diameter. Figure 196 shows the top of a large plant growing on the sides of a cliff on the outskirtsof Cuenca, Ecuador, photographed by George Rose in September 1918.
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