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Two folded, crested pieces set out on red bark mulch in flat light, a short fat one standing upright in front with two bright green pups at its foot, and a longer wavy one lying behind it with its ridges packed tighter.
Growing

TBHP

Also written as TBHP (Sharxx Blue × Olivia)

A Cocac line hybrid that never grows the same way twice: it will terminate a head, throw a fasciated section, or run a perfectly normal column, depending on the conditions it is in. That unpredictability is the whole reason people want it.

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Species group
Hybrid
Photographed since
April 2026
Photographs
4 on this page

Family line

Parents: Sharxx Blue, Peruvianus family; Olivia, Other Trichocereus family. This cultivar: TBHP.

Seed parentSharxx BluePollen parentOlivia
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What it looks like

Growth habit
Variable expression: termination, fasciation or plain ribbed growth on the same plant.

Photographs

My own pictures of this plant, taken in the yard.

  • April 2026

  • The crown has gone yellow; the ribs below it are still green. · May 2026

  • May 2026

  • One nearly spineless, the other spined its whole length. · May 2026

Over time

Photographed over 38 days — April 2026 to May 2026, on 2 different days.

  1. April 2026

    Two folded, crested pieces set out on red bark mulch in flat light, a short fat one standing upright in front with two bright green pups at its foot, and a longer wavy one lying behind it with its ridges packed tighter.

  2. May 2026

    A young TBHP column standing in bark mulch with a lumpy offset pushing up on each side of its base, a sprawl of yellow-green growth blurred behind it in hard sun.
    A short, thick piece held out in a work glove, its ribs swollen and creased so they run in soft waves rather than straight lines, short amber spines only up at the clustered tips.
    Two cut segments laid on a whitewashed board in full sun, a short fat one with broad ribs and almost no spines at the left and a longer darker one covered in brown spines at the right, with a tape measure along the board's edge and wooden toadstools around its frame.

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