Origin and Habitat: Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)

• Echinopsis pentlandii f. variegata hort.

• Echinopsis pentlandii (Hook.) Salm-Dyck ex A.Dietr.
• Echinocactus pentlandii (Hook.)
• Echinocereus pentlandii (Hook.) K.Schum. in Engl. & Prantl
• Lobivia pentlandii (Hook.) Britton & Rose
• Echinopsis pentlandii subs. hardeniana (Boed.) G.Navarro
• Lobivia hardeniana Boed. ex Backeb. & F.M.Knuth
• Lobivia pentlandii var. hardeniana (Boed.) Rausch
• Lobivia pentlandii f. hardeniana (Boed.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia rossii var. hardeniana (Boed.) Backeb.
• Echinopsis pentlandii subs. larae (Cárdenas) G.Navarro
• Lobivia backebergii var. larae (Cárdenas) Rausch
• Lobivia larae Cárdenas
• Lobivia pentlandii var. larae (Cárdenas) Rausch
• Echinopsis scheeri Salm-Dyck
• Lobivia scheeri (Salm-Dyck) Rausch
• Lobivia maximiliana var. lauramarca (Rauh & Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia lauramarca Rauh & Backeb. in Backeb.
• Lobivia multicostata Backeb.
• Lobivia multicostata Backeb.
• Lobivia pentlandii f. aculeata (Buining) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia aculeata Buining
• Lobivia pentlandii f. argentea (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia argentea Backeb.
• Lobivia pentlandii f. aurantiaca (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia aurantiaca Backeb.
• Lobivia boliviensis Werderm. non Britton & Rose
• Lobivia pentlandii f. boliviensis (Britton & Rose) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia boliviensis Britton & Rose
• Lobivia pentlandii f. brunneo-rosea (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia brunneo-rosea Backeb.
• Lobivia pentlandii f. higginsiana (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia higginsiana Backeb.
• Lobivia pentlandii f. johnsoniana (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia johnsoniana Backeb.
• Lobivia pentlandii f. leucorhodon (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia leucorhodon Backeb.
• Lobivia pentlandii f. leucoviolacea (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia leucoviolacea Backeb. in Backeb. & F.M.Knuth
• Lobivia pentlandii f. omasuyana (Cárdenas) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia omasuyana Cárdenas
• Lobivia pentlandii f. raphidacantha (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia raphidacantha Backeb. in Backeb. & F.M.Knuth
• Lobivia pentlandii f. schneideriana (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia schneideriana Backeb.
• Lobivia pentlandii f. titicacensis (Cárdenas) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia titicacensis Cárdenas
• Lobivia pentlandii f. varians (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia varians Backeb. in Backeb. & F.M.Knuth
• Lobivia pentlandii f. wegheiana (Backeb.) J.Ullmann
• Lobivia wegheiana Backeb.

• Echinopsis pentlandii f. cristata hort.
• Lobivia pentlandii f. cristata

• Echinopsis pentlandii var. longispina Rümpler in C.F.Först.
• Lobivia pentlandii var. longispina (Rümpler) Backeb. in Backeb. & F.M.Knuth

• Echinopsis pentlandii cv. Yellow (forma albinica) hort.

Description: The classical Echinopsis pentlandiiSN|14362]]SN|10595]] (syn: Lobivia pentlandiiSN|10598]]SN|10598]]) is a pretty little species with colourful flowers. The variegated form (Echinopsis pentlandii f. variegataSN|10595]]SN|14362]]) has sectors, patches or stripes with distinct shades of yellow. A very few variegated plants sprout unpredictably time by time among normal green seedling and are very rare. Plants with variegated stems are often attractive and highly prized.
Stems: Glossy dark green stripped with yellow, low thick flat to cylindrical. The body slowly ramifies from the base to form clusters, size depending on the clone. Felted areoles line the edges of 25 to 30 ribs.
Spines: 7 or more, brownish, radial spines that grow to 5 cm Old plant begins to produce very long spines (up to 25 cm in some clones)
Flowers: Slender Pink to reddish-brown, orange or yellow with a usual clearer centre, approx. 6 cm long, 5 cm diameter. Blooms are produced in spring and remain open for about three days.
Roots: Tap root.

Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose “Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family” Courier Dover Publications, 1963
2) James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey “The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass” Cambridge University Press, 11/Aug./2011
3) David Hunt, Nigel Taylor “The New Cactus Lexicon” DH Books, 2006 ISBN 0953813444, 9780953813445.
4) Edward F. Anderson “The Cactus Family” Timber Press, 2001
5) Clive Innes, Charles Glass “Cacti” Portland House, 01/May/1991

Cultivation and Propagation: Variegated cacti are regarded as choice and difficult in cultivation, but despite that many of them are relatively easy to grow. But be aware that they cannot tolerate prolonged exposure to direct sun light (especially during the hottest summer days), so grow them in half-shade or under filtered sun. They are sometime seen as grafted plants, but some of this colourful plants (those with some chlorophyll) are able to grow on their own roots and are priced by collectors.
Soil: Use mineral well-permeable substratum with little organic matter (peat, humus).
Watering: Water sparingly from March till October, and keep perfectly dry in winter, at temperatures from 5 to 15 degrees centigrade. (In general these plants are more tender and cannot endure freezing temperatures). In the rest period no high atmospheric humidity!!
Propagation: By seeds, grafting or cutting. Because the variegation is due to the presence of two kinds of plant tissue, propagating the plant must be by a vegetative method of propagation that preserves both types of tissue in relation to each other. A most common way way to cultivate this partially de-coloured cultivars is to graft them onto another cactus which has chlorophyll and which will provide sugar to the mutant scion. The chlorophyll containing bottom part of the graft, called the stock, can be any number of different columnar cactus species.
Remarks: Seeds from variegated parents often give raise to some variegated seedlings too.