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Althea, a Other Trichocereus grown in the yard, recorded as variegated. Skin variegated and marbled; spines each areole usually carries one moderately long central spine ringed by short ones. Photograph 1 of 3 of this clone.
Growing

Althea

Also written as Variegated Althea

The Althea growing here is the variegated form, marbled rather than striped. I keep tip grafts of it going to harvest areoles for other grafting projects.

Read the reference entry → — what the name Althea means, where it came from, and what other growers record about it.

Nothing off this one is listed at the moment. It's growing in the yard and gets cut when it's ready.

Tell me when it’s cut
Species group
Other Trichocereus
In the yard since
Not recorded yet
Where it came from
Not recorded yet
Photographs
3 on this page

Anything marked “not recorded yet” is a fact I have not written down. I would rather leave the gap than guess at it.

Photographs

My own pictures of this plant, taken in the yard. The drawn frames are my illustrations, standing in until I have photographed the rest.

  • August 2026

  • August 2026

  • August 2026

  • Line drawing of a crested cactus, its growing point stretched into a wavy fan lined with areoles

    Illustration

  • Line drawing of a tall ribbed San Pedro cactus standing in the ground, its areoles and spines running up the crest of each rib

    Illustration

  • Line drawing of a rooted cactus cut away at the soil line, showing the buried stem and the roots spreading below it

    Illustration

  • Line drawing of a clumping cactus, offsets pushing up around the base of the mother stem

    Illustration

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