Thomas Koffel, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF · observed growing wild

Soehrensia spachiana (Lem.) Schlumpb.

Golden Torch, Torch Cactus, White Torch Cactus, golden column

No habitat climate 9 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Echinopsis spachiana, synonyms including Soehrensia spachiana and Trichocereus spachianus, commonly known as the golden torch, (white) torch cactus or golden column, is a species of cactus native to South America. It is commonly cultivated as a pot or rockery plant worldwide. It has a columnar habit, with a lime-green cylindrical body with 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) long golden spines.

Text from Wikipedia, “Echinopsis spachiana”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Soehrensia

Soehrensia is a formerly accepted genus of cacti native to South America. It is now included within Echinopsis. Its former species are native to northern Argentina, Bolivia, northern Chile, Paraguay and Peru, and have been introduced elsewhere, including Mexico, southern Africa and Spain.

Text from Wikipedia, “Soehrensia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Cactaceae

Described by

(Lem.) Schlumpb.

Native to

Bolivia, Argentina Northwest

Wild records

1 in range· 0 open

Also known as Cereus santiaguensis Speg.; Cereus spachianus Lem.; Echinopsis santiaguensis (Speg.) H.Friedrich & G.D.Rowley; Echinopsis spachiana (Lem.) H.Friedrich & G.D.Rowley; Trichocereus santiaguensis (Speg.) Backeb. and 1 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by Cactaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.

No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

NativeBolivia, Argentina Northwest· introduced: Spain, Sicilia, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Lesotho, Free State, Northern Provinces, Mexico Northwest

Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1 georeferenced record inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. 628 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species.

Photographs

Photographs: Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIF (3); Sophia K, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; James C. Davis, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIF; CK2AZ, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Dave Richardson, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Soehrensia spachiana, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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