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BK08612.4 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Other Trichocereus

BK08612.4

Partially documented

BK08612.4 is a Ben Kamm collection number from Sacred Succulents, with the .4 marking one chosen seedling from that batch. Growers praise its colour and treat cuts as scarce and costly, but no one has recorded its count, spine length or detail. In practice the name tells you the collection it came out of rather than what the plant looks like.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • strong colour
  • hard to find

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

Of the 12 things this page says, 2 name who reports them 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 BK prefix marks it as a Ben Kamm collection, made under the Sacred Succulents name.

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 BK08612.4. 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: on a specialist reference's account, collected at Matucana in Peru; the community wiki states no species.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

The suffix .4 identifies one selected seedling out of the 08612 batch.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The specimen the community discussion is built around was grown and photographed by James May.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Cuts are described as scarce and expensive, with several growers recording that they were searching for one.Reported, but not confirmed.

The Matucana populations the collection was made in sit at around two thousand metres, and Matucana is the locality Britton and Rose originally gave for Trichocereus peruvianus.Reported, but not confirmed.

A Californian nursery says it grew its own BK08612.4 on from a seedling bought from Sacred Succulents, never , and out of the same seed batch as two other named plants it sells.Reported, but not confirmed.That is a first-hand record of the route the number travelled, from someone who bought at the far end of it.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

Where the name comes from

The BK prefix marks it as a Ben Kamm collection, made under the Sacred Succulents name.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
Growers single out its colouring as the striking feature, and a specialist reference names it: a frosted, blue.Reported, but not confirmed.
Notes
The wiki page admits that rib count, spine length and areole detail are not documented.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The wiki page is bot-compiled from discussion and not editor-checked, and its description leans on general Trichocereus features rather than observations of this plant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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.