The original casting of this 8 ribbed beauty
was taken in the Chihuahuan desert, a region with much colder winters
than south Texas. Tenaciously weathering freezing winters by growing on
the southern, sun-facing slopes of its mountainous home, this
individual embodies the power of its kind.
Some scholars have classified this as a
distinct subspecies, more potent and slower growing than the varieties
found in the south Texas areas known to the Native Americans as the
"peyote gardens".
Dr. Terry's ground-breaking research has shown
this northern variety to be genetically distinct from its southern
relatives.
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