Cacti from Peru and Guatemala

This page has pictures of the cacti sampled in Peru and Guatmala

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Tentatively identified as Echinopsis pachanoi, found domesticated north of Lima. Called "San Pedro"

a closer look at the unopened flowers

Tetatively identified as Correyocactus brevistylus, found on Nevada Chanchani near Arequipa..

a close up of a young arm

an opened fruit

Tetatively identified as Armatocereus procerus, found near Nazca and a fruit opened by an animal..

The following two cacti were encountered in Guatemala, near San Cristobal Acasaguastlan

Tetatively identified as Pachycereus lepidanthus, notice the whitened, fuzzy ends of the arms

Tetatively identified as Opuntia eichlamii,

Last Updated March 8, 2002