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Cacto Híbrido seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Hybrid
Cacto Híbrido
Well documented
Also written as Cacto Hibrido
The name is simply Spanish for "hybrid cactus" — a description that stuck because that is what the grower wrote down.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
HybridInformal label: Shorthand or a describing label rather than a cultivar name. It does not promise one specific plant.
Of the 4 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 3 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 Cacto Híbrido. 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.
Where the name comes from
The Spanish-speaking grower who passed it on wrote "hybrid cactus" on the label, and the label became the name.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.
Growth habit
Grows very fat, around five to six inches, which is why it is used as .One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Thick, vigorous columns of that girth make sensible rootstock in this genus.Tip reached roughly head height in two to three years in large pots.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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.
A hybrid 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, Hybrid. The better-documented ones come first.
