downwardsfromzero wrote:There are some columnar Echinocereus species that are glossy like that but yours looks as though it has some mechanical damage so maybe it's glossy from rubbing against packaging or overhanging leaves or something? But the small white areoles also look like those on a couple of my columnar Echinocereus which makes me interested to see how it might look after having grown several inches. The main thing being it's way glossier than your usual Trichocereus therefore clearing up any backstory on that would be most helpful.
Nope, haven´t cleaned it with anything (although can´t say anything about the previous owner), and it only has some little old scar in one of the arms. As to the species, i was told that it was a Bolivian Echinocereus, and I was expecting it to be a Brigesii when I unpacked it, I even checked if the spines were cut but found out that they were just really small (a couple mm), so I decided to ask here fearing that it would be some PC variant.
After searching around I found this
https://trichocereus.net...ereus-pachanoi-bolivia/. Which shows some pictures of similarly glossy cacti. So its probably some Pachanoi cousin from the Southern Andes that isnt catalogued as a separate specie/variant yet.
Will probably have to wait for it to grow a bit to try out how potent it is, because I haven´t found anything related to them.