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Blue Magoo seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
Blue Magoo
Well documented
Also written as WG005
Blue Magoo, coded WG005, went into circulation in November 2019 when Willy Good released from a plant picked up on a landscaping job. Before that it had spent about fifteen years in one garden after being bought at a yard sale, propagated privately with no cuts released. Growers keep it for the strong blue on pups and new growth, on stands reported to reach around fifteen feet, with larger spines than average.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
blue new growth
large spines
tall stands
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 10 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 9 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 Blue Magoo. 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
Good said at the time that the plant had just been picked up through a landscaping job.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Its previous owner is reported to have bought it at a yard sale roughly fifteen years earlier, which puts the purchase around 2004.Reported, but not confirmed.
That owner grew and propagated it for years without releasing any cuttings until the 2019 introduction.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
Willy Good put the into circulation in November 2019 through an online auction group, using the code WG005.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.
Skin
Pups and new growth carry a strong blue.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A waxy glaucous bloom on young growth is common in the genus and typically strongest on fresh pups.
Spines
Described as larger, though no length or colour is given.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
Mature stands are reported to have reached about fifteen feet.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
count is not recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
Almost all the detail traces back to a single release post relayed by one contributor, so the pre-2019 history rests on second-hand recollection.Reported, but not confirmed.
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.
