so every time i feel ive learnt enough about cactuses to ID successfully , the next cactus i find seems to be more ambiguous than ever, this is the case again ;

I found this being thrown out and asked if it was for the taking, it was, so i took some cuttings and i'm geurilla farming them.
Its not the common cactus in my area, that always gets me, and its not bridgesii, the one good species ive found in my earea. bbut it does look a bit like torch to me. and it has the little seagull-wings V above the areole . So i thought it was an active species , but: it has no bitter taste to it at all, and a high spine count per areole , so im not sure

Please help,

Thanx so much

based on your written description, i'd guess its a cactus.

ambiguous is right... how bout a picture?

Ah cock how'd i manage that?
there you go:

what is often called a kk242, or cuzco plant(tricho from cuzco area of peru)

many of these are inactive(most of them?)

im not expert but it looks like a peruvianus, brown thorns are a good sign.

I'm going with dg's call on this one, i think he's right in saying its a cuzco

thanx so much for the help though !

You could always take one for the team...your own team, that is...
You never know about some of these...not only ambiguity, but also interspecies variability between strains, and all the hybridizing going on. You will find the occasional diamond in the cactus rough; I've got a hugely potent bridgesii and another hugely potent pach that unless I'd checked them out, I never would have known about them. In fact, if I were starting a medicinal garden, there would be no point in growing anything except those two.

So good luck!

Yeah ,but a lick of my ultra potent bridgessi, is very bitter and this one tastes the same as species i know to not be active.
So i still may do that, but im not going to rely on it i dont think

hi everyone... this is my first post regarding cactus. The nexus has been the go to place for me to learn about spice/space travel, and then discovering aya with the Secoya people in costa rica thanks to antrocles. I've learned so much reading here. After about 30 trips with spice and the GVG i was ready for Aya. After my trip to Costa i really had no urge to blast off with spice. It's been about 6 months now and i feel the cactus calling me for some reason. I've never done cactus, although many decades ago i did mescaline and that was very pleasant.
So i'm sure this is asked many times, and i looked for a proper thread to id cactus but didn't find one. So i just chose this one( the first to ask for cactus id).

There is a huge patch of cactus on my block. I walk by it all the time. After looking at some cactus that has been id'd i think this one might be. COuld anybody tell me what they think? It would be really cool to be able to have a spiritual experience with a cactus i've been looking at for 14 years and didn't even know it was possibly magical.

Its probably myrtillocactus geometerizans - def not a trich anyways. Good luck finding a good one.

ahhhh, well it was worth a shot.. i have ordered Trichocereus Pachanoi top cuts for growing so i'll know what i have

i'll just have to wait a while.

yeah that last one is blue myrtle - good graphting stock apparently

Those myrtles do grow well. Get a cutting or two. They are pretty plants and are popular grafting stock.

the first cacti shown is most likely inactive, and less likely to be moderately active, and least likely to be a 10/10 comparitively to most t bridgesii

ive had many of these (like yours) cacti be weak to innactive

bioassay to know for sure, but i dont bet with peruvianus on the basis of missing sometimes