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Addington seal. monstrose growth, heavy spines recorded.

Other Trichocereus

Addington

Well documented

Addington is a New Zealand named after the Christchurch suburb where its parent stand grew. Growers describe blue-green and spines that stay short on young growth but lengthen as columns get big, and the plant is said to flower dependably in a temperate maritime climate. What is not settled is whether the name covers one plant: the site is reported to have started from five plants or , so more than one genotype may be circulating under the name.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • blue-green skin
  • spines lengthen with age
  • reliable flowering
  • unstable monstrose

Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

Of the 16 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 13 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Added 23 Aug 2026

At a glance

Species

Not recorded

No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.

Filed under Other Trichocereus

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

Salvaged cuttings were passed around locally by Graeme Wilson after the stand came down.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

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Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a confirmed cross for Addington, and no other entry here names it as a parent. What the record does hold is below.

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.

No parents recorded; the wiki page treats it as a find from an old garden stand rather than a bred plant.Reported, but not confirmed.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: described as intermediate between and Trichocereus .Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

The property's former owner remembered the planting starting from five plants or cuttings, which is why growers suspect more than one genotype may have stood there.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The main stand was felled, but the survived and have pushed regrowth visible over the fence line and garage at the site.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Cuttings were rescued and handed on by Christchurch grower Graeme Wilson.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A similar-looking plant taken from the same grower's Lincoln Street property was named Lincoln by Kaelish Davies, and growers report small visual differences between the two.Reported, but not confirmed.

The wiki page also notes a close resemblance to a local collection called Belfast, which came from El Willow.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The name comes from an old, well-known group of plants in the Addington suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.Reported, but not confirmed.

Character

A bar is drawn only where one of the lines below states it — never from the species, never from a photograph.

  • Not documented yet.

  • nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans strongly towards heavily spined, read from the spines line below.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
The epidermis is given as a blue-green.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A glaucous blue-green epidermis is an ordinary waxy-bloom condition seen across the genus.
Spines
Young growth carries the short spines usual on New Zealand pachanoi, while big mature columns push longer, heavier ones.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
The mother stand threw occasional monstrose branches, but cuttings taken from them are reported to go back to ordinary ribbed growth.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Occasional monstrose branches that revert to ribbed growth on cuttings do not make the plant a monstrose grower.
Flowers
It is said to flower dependably once settled, which is why regional breeders use it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The wiki page itself says the community is still working out whether the name covers one clone or several closely related seedlings that were planted together at the original site. The wiki page carries the wiki's banner marking it as bot-compiled from community discussion and not yet checked by an editor."Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Intermediate between pachanoi and peruvianus" describes how the plant looks rather than a gap between two species — the current treatment puts both names inside one species. What is genuinely unresolved here is the other thing the wiki page says: whether the name covers one plant or several seedlings planted together.Reported, but not confirmed.

Drawing of two plain Trichocereus columns of different heights, standing for the wider genus rather than one plant.
A Trichocereus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.

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