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Cactus Culture seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Scopulicola
Cactus Culture
Partially documented
Cactus Culture is recorded as a from New Zealand, and that single line is the entire entry. Nothing has been written down about its ribs, or spines, or about who selected and named it. Since scopulicola as a species is known for smooth, near-spineless columns, the name tells you more about the source than about this particular plant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
ScopulicolaNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.
Of the 2 things this page says, 2 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 Cactus Culture. 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 entry records the as a scopulicola out of New Zealand.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.
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.
A Scopulicola 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, Scopulicola. The better-documented ones come first.
