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Baker's Huanucoensis seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
Baker's Huanucoensis
Partially documented
Baker's Huanucoensis is named after Bill Baker, a botanist and nurseryman who ran a nursery in Reseda, California and died in 2009. the community wiki confirms that this is the same Baker behind the called 5452, clearing up a long-running community mix-up. What the plant actually looks like is not recorded anywhere in our sources.Reported, but not confirmed.
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 7 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 6 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 Baker's Huanucoensis. 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 plant is understood to have come from Baker's nursery in Reseda, California.Reported, but not confirmed.
The same Baker stands behind the clone known as bridgesii 5452, which settles an earlier community question about whether two different people were meant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The name honours the botanist and nurseryman Bill Baker, who lived from 1959 to 2009.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.
Notes
The wiki page states plainly that no count, spine measurement or colour is available for this clone.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
The wiki page records a correction: one contributor's account of the name was contradicted by another with more specific dates and locations.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Huanucoensis is a name growers use that the botanical record has never settled: no or name uses that in the standing index at all. So calling a plant a huanucoensis places it in the hobby's vocabulary without identifying it the way a published species name would, and no binomial is attached to this entry, because the wiki page states no species for the plant and a name alone is not evidence.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
A Trichocereus 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, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.
