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Cactaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Trichocereus macrogonus pachanoi

Trichocereus macrogonus pachanoi

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
4/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Shrub
GrowthMedium

In cultivation, Cactus plants generally will not succeed in moist climates. They usually require a sunny position in a well-drained, circumneutral soil and to be kept more or less dry in the dormant season[1].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Trichocereus+macrogonus+pachanoi>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. — Huxley. A. · MacMillan Press · 1992 · ISBN 0-333-47494-5 ↩︎Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed.
  2. [2]The Cactus Family — Anderson E.F. · Timber Press; Portland, Oregon · 2001 · ISBN 0-88192-498-9 ↩︎An excellent work, giving botanical descriptions of virtually all the cacti, together with their range (but not their habitats) and sometimes also a photo. it also contains a long chapter detailing the many uses of cacti and another on cultivation..
  3. [3]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
  4. [4]New mescaline concentrations from 14 taxa/cultivars of Echinopsis spp. (Cactaceae) (“San Pedro”) and their relevance — Ogunbodede O. et al · 2010 ↩︎
  5. [5]Medicinal Plants of the Andes and the Amazon: The magic and medicinal flora of Northern Peru — Bussmann R.W. & Sharon D. · 2015 · ISBN 10:0-9960231-2-7 ↩︎An introduction to traditional herbalism in Peru plus brief information on the medicinal uses of
  6. [6]An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants commercialized in the markets of La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia — M.J. Macía et al · 2005 ↩︎
  7. [7]Enciclopedia de las Plantas Útiles del Ecuador — de la Torre, L., Navarrete H., P. Muriel M., Macía M.J. & Ba · Herbario QCA de la Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas de la Pontific · 2008 · ISBN 978-9978-77-135-8 ↩︎
  8. [8]Ethnobotany of the Andes — Bussmann R.W. & Paniagua-Zambrana N.Y. (Editors) · Springer Nature; Switzerland · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28933-1 · ISBN 978-3-030-28932-4 ↩︎