Trichocereus Santiaguensis Monstruosa

So this clone is around for at least 20 years and it was long though to be a monstrose Pachanoi or Peruvianus. However, this was originally grown from Trichocereus Santiaguensis seed, which is synonymous with Trichocereus Spachianus. It is also called green peperoni cactus and I once obtained a cutting labeled Trichocereus peperone.

Now let´s summarize what this plant is synonymous with:

• Trichocereus spachianus monstrousa
  


• Trichocereus Santiaguensis monstruosa


• Cereus santiaguensis  monstruosa


• Cereus spachianus monstruosa
  


• Trichocereus santiaguensis monstruosa
  


• Echinopsis santiaguensis  monstruosa
  

Please note that this is NOT synonymous with Trichocereus Santaensis, which rather is some kind of San Pedro Hybrid or Intermediate.

Some also label this Trichocereus Santiagoensis monstruosa but I rather think that this is some kind of a spelling error.

The plant grows mostly spineless and looks like a very thick spineless variety of a TBM. This plant is really rare and is not related to the two similar looking Lophocereus monstruosa cultivars that exist too.

The spines are light brown and look like the spines on a standard Spachianus.

I am not sure how it got into cultivation but it is believed that this is actually a nursery-produced cultivar.

Trichocereus Santiaguensis Monstruosa