Mislabelled terscheckii

[downwardsfromzero]

Recently I was at a garden centre and found an appreciable number of cacti mislabelled as being Trichocereus pachanoi. In the picture attached below you can see quite clearly that it's a terscheckii. Obviously I had to get myself a specimen, but please don't tell me it's a chiloensis

 

[Wolfnippletip]

Handsome Beast of a Terscheckii! What did it cost you? Somebody'd want at least 150 USD on Ebay.

 

[downwardsfromzero]

Would have cost me 89 flaccid British Pounds but I got a couple of pounds knocked off on account of the mislabelling and being kind enough to point out a few other mislabelled specimens at the place. A quick calculation shows that this works out at being a little less than 110 USD so either this was a great deal or Ebay is a rip off.

Either way it's a lovely plant and it seemed to have the most vibrant meristem of the specimens available. There are only 4 visible annual growth marks so it's possible it's a cutting from a much larger plant. Here's to it growing another 18" in the next 4 years anyhow!