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Trichocereus pachanoi "San Pedro", "giganton". The San Pedro cactus is indigenous to the Andes Mountains of South America at an altitude of 2,500 m. elevation. These cacti are fast growing, columnar, usually with six to eight ribs, growing tall, 3-6 m. high with numerous branches. The skin is dark green to blue-green. The spines are short to nonexistent, colored yellow to brown. San Pedro has adapted well to a diverse variety of climatic zones around the world. The creamy white night-blooming flowers are very large, showy, and deliciously fragrant.

Trichocereus peruvianus Matucana "Peruvian torch".This San Pedro is 2-4m. high with numerous branches. This species has very formidable spines that are brown and turn gray with age, reaching 1 ˝ inches in length at maturity. Flowers are large and white. First collected in Matucana-Huarochiri, Peru at 2,100 m. elevation (7,000 ft). Can contain 3 times the phytochemical composition (cactophagic repellents) of T. pachanoi making it more resistant to fungal, bacterial, viral and insect damage. A rare and beautiful cactus. Peruvian torch could be described best as San Pedro (T. pachanoi) on "steroids". Peruvian torch is as fast growing as T. pachanoi, but is somewhat more drought and frost tolerant.

From both cactus species is prepared a brew called San Pedro "achuma", "huachuma" or "cimora". In Peru, the brew is widely used, especially in the northern coast where the monks from a pre-Inca culture known as the Chavin had a close and deep relationship with the San Pedro. The main compund in the San Pedro cactus is 3,4,5-Trimethoxyphenethylamine or mescaline which was reported at a concentration of 1.2% in the dried cactus. Besides mescaline, it also contains phenethylamines and other substances in minimal proportions.

The name San Pedro originated in the idea that the apostle Pedro holds the keys of heaven. Some researchers like Backeberg says that the genus Trichocereus has 47 species, all native to South America. However, other researchers like Carlos Ostalaza states that there are only 13 species in the genus Trichocereus. The most common San Pedro is T. pachanoi but various other Trichocereus have also been shown to contain mescaline. The potency of San Pedro depends upon which species is used. Reports published in scholary journals have shown San Pedro to sometimes be twice as strong as some, but not all, peyote. In addition San Pedro grows a few orders of magnitude faster than peyote. San Pedro can double in mass every year, while peyote takes about a decade to grow to flowering size. San Pedro branches can grow to 18" by 4" in diameter, while natural peyote tops out at about 2" high by 4" in diameter. San Pedro is certainly a formidable mescaline producer and has 3 millenia of human usage.

"Currently there is serious confusion between T. pachanoi and T. peruvianus. Some researchers like K. Trout believes that "the confused state of affairs for peruvianus resulted from peruvianus plants, such as those shown in the pictures, that hybridized with pachanoi as it was planted up and down the Andes over the course of the last few thousand years". Lots of very bad work and poor taxonomy has been published. There is not a single truly meaningful published description of peruvianus; Britton & Rose`s is clearly inadequate and Backeberg´s is no better. Either of those 2 descriptions, as they are written, could be applied to half a dozen other species. Other people like Ritter & Madsen claimed that T. peruvianus is just a spiny T. pachanoi form. All I can see that this has done is to cause a lot of peruvianus and similar looking plants that are not pachanoi to enter cultivation mislabeled as T. pachanoi."

"Incredibly the rationale for synonymity seems to hinge upon the wealth of intermediates that exist and does seem to take into account the following: 1) How intensely pachanoi has been cultivated (This is probably true of bridgesii and peruvianus as well) 2) How many millenia people have cultivated it and how many different cultures this has involved. 3) The broad range that this cultivation has occurred in. 4) How easily the Trichocereus species hybridize. 5) How intensely variable all of the Trichocereus species are, depending their growing conditions environment. I doubt this will ever get clearly sorted out until someone actually does the required field work in Peru" K. TROUT

Other uses of the cactus :

- Rare incense Peruvianus

New Batch April 2005

extra- green  peruvian torch, 45% less white tissue, more colour , more essence of this rare and Sacred  incense .It requires 7 huge cactus more to get our batches now, less volume more perfume.

The Peruvian torch's  perfume will hep you to reconnect with your inner voice and with the Pachamama. In order to obtain 1 kilo of this rare incense we need approx. 22 huge cactus now that weights 6-7 kilos each. A whole family from the Andes of Peru is in charge to obtain our Peruvian torch.

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