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BBG 481540 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Name only

BBG 481540

Name only

BBG 481540 is an accession-style code filed in the community wiki with no text attached. Codes of this shape usually point back to a botanical garden's records, but the wiki page states nothing about the plant, its species or its history, so we leave it at that.Reported, but not confirmed.

Other TrichocereusField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.

The one thing this page says is 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 source named a species for this one.

Filed under Other Trichocereus

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

No record found

No source we hold records where this plant came from.

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

In the yard

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for BBG 481540. 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.

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.

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

No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
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.