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AB04 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
AB04
Grown herePartially documented
A tagged plant in the ground here: low and squat, with a fat, deeply lobed crown. Not for sale.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Other TrichocereusField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.
Of the 3 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 1 is marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for AB04. Nobody names a mother or a father for it, and no other entry here names it as a parent.
That is the record, not an oversight: of the 749 names in this library, 693 have no recorded relation either. Most named clones were selected, cut and passed along without anyone writing down what they came out of. A parent goes in here when a source states it and never because a name looks like one — a wrong pedigree would travel further than a blank one, because pedigrees get copied.
If you know where it came from, tell us — a person reads everything before it appears.
Where the record does not agree
Found by comparing what every source we hold says about AB04, not by anybody noticing. Where two of them take opposite positions, this page shows both rather than picking one.
Whether AB04 grows monstrose
It does not. A tagged plant in the ground here: low and squat, with a fat, deeply lobed monstrose crown. Not for sale.
1 ours / first-hand source
It does. Monstrose growth occurs in this genus, and the plant described is squat with a lobed monstrose crown, which matches the claim.
1 ours / first-hand source
Our house botanist reads the record this way: ab04 — grows monstrose Monstrose growth occurs in this genus, and the plant described is squat with a lobed monstrose crown, which matches the claim. That is its judgement, not a finding either source published.
Character
A bar is drawn only where one of the lines below states it — never from the species, never from a photograph.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Growth habit
Low and squat, with a deeply lobed crown.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
What the sources say
An the owner assigned, in the same initials-plus-number style collectors use for field collections.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Our own plant, in the yard. 3 pictures of it on its collection page.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.
