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Bach's Faux Scop seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Scopulicola
Bach's Faux Scop
Partially documented
Bach's Faux turns up as a plant name in grower-to-grower listings.Reported, but not confirmed.Listings carrying it run from 2022 to 2026. Sellers who name a species for it write scopulicola.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Beyond that the record is empty: no finder, no date, nobody's account of where it came from. Saying so is the honest end of this page.Reported, but not confirmed.
ScopulicolaNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 8 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 7 are 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 Bach's Faux Scop. 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
The same nursery explains the name: on its account the plant is plainly not a scopulicola, and when another grower began sharing it he called it a faux scop, which is the form that stuck.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
A licensed California nursery gives the source as Bach's Cactus Nursery in Tucson, Arizona.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.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Nobody has described the skin, the ribs or the spines of this one anywhere we could cite, so there is nothing here to draw or to list.
What the sources say
Neither the community wiki nor the specialist references carry a page for this name.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.A licensed California nursery grows the plant and publishes its own account of it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A Scopulicola column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Scopulicola. The better-documented ones come first.
