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Arid Art Macro seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Other Trichocereus

Arid Art Macro

Partially documented

Arid Art Macro is a seed-grown plant bought as from an eBay seller of that name in 2007 or 2008, when it stood about 25 cm tall. The wiki entry is essentially a photo record: no count, spine description or colour has been written down. Because it came from seed, the name marks a particular purchased plant rather than a documented .Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Other TrichocereusNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.

Of the 10 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on and 9 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

The plant was bought from the eBay seller Arid Art in either 2007 or 2008, already about 25 cm tall and labelled as macrogonus.

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 Arid Art Macro, 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.

Seed-grown, so its parents are unknown; only the seller who supplied it is recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: sold as Macrogonus.

It was raised from seed rather than taken as a from a named mother.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The wiki's macrogonus identification page uses this plant as one of its two archive examples.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A California nursery that grows the plant gives the same purchase independently of the community wiki: a seed-raised plant bought from the eBay seller Arid Art in 2007 or 2008 at roughly 25 cm, sold to it as a macrogonus, and it traces the material back to Australia.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The same nursery describes reddish spines that colour up in cold weather, and set far enough apart up the rib to leave a lot of the blue wax showing.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The plant was bought from the eBay seller Arid Art in either 2007 or 2008, already about 25 cm tall and labelled as macrogonus.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.

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Notes
The wiki page carries photographs only and states no rib count, spine or skin detail.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

Our own notes list Arid Art Macro among names that circulate without verified traits, which matches the wiki's photo-only entry.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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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.