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Ayacucho Star seal. variegated skin.

Other Trichocereus

Ayacucho Star

Partially documented

Ayacucho Star is a named for a region of Peru, with yellow sectors breaking up green, . Beyond the variegation almost nothing is documented: no count, no spine detail, and no record of who first selected or named it. The wiki page itself rates its own information as weak.Reported, but not confirmed.

  • yellow variegation
  • glaucous green

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

Of the 11 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 10 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 name refers to the Ayacucho region of Peru.

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 cross for Ayacucho Star. 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.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: Trichocereus, species not stated; the care notes treat it as .Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

No breeder, importer or wild collection is recorded for it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

One grower reports getting a variegated cut some years before 2024 from a woman collector who is not named.Reported, but not confirmed.

Cuts have moved between hobbyists, including an exchange between Benjamin Schwarzschild and Aidan Maiolo.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A Californian nursery selling under this name states that its came originally from Ayacucho in Peru.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The wiki page marks its own sources here as low confidence and one of them as speculative about whether the plant being discussed is even this clone, so a second voice placing it in the same region is worth having — while a shared region is not a shared plant.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The name refers to the Ayacucho region of Peru.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
The plant is variegated, with yellow sectors breaking up an otherwise glaucous green surface.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Yellow-sectored variegation on a glaucous green body is a form the genus regularly throws.
Notes
Nothing is recorded for rib count, areole structure or spine length.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The community wiki marks its own sources here as low confidence, one of them explicitly speculative about whether the plant discussed is even the same clone.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The growth our record gives Ayacucho Star. A drawing of the form, not of any one plant.The sector runs the length of the stem because it follows a line of growing tissue, not the light.

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.