Help on Id please

If you have a cactus plant and need help identifying it, this is the place to post it.
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Larissa
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Help on Id please

Post by Larissa »

Hello, I have had this cactus for around a week now and would like to know the name of it, if anyone can help I would be very grateful, thank you :)
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HP22B
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Re: Help on Id please

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Looks sort of like a Pilosocereus, maybe pachycladus. I'd wait for someone more knowledgeable to chime in first :D
phil_SK
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Re: Help on Id please

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It's Cereus hankeanus, sometimes seen labelled with the name C. forbesii, only nobody's really clear what this was originally, so best stick with hankeanus.
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