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Cactus Kate's San Pedro seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
Cactus Kate's San Pedro
Partially documented
Cactus Kate's San Pedro is known by two features growers can actually check: very blue new pups and orange colouring at the spine bases. It also pups freely, even after damage in transit. The history is where it gets tangled, because the wiki page and the companion Cactus Kate's page tell different stories about who Cactus Kate was.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
blue pups
orange spine bases
pups readily
Other TrichocereusNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.
Of the 8 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 6 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.
No source in this library records a cross for Cactus Kate's San Pedro. 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: (syn. ), species not stated.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Plants circulating under the name are generally traced back to Robinson's .Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The is tied to the late Verne Robinson, a cactus seller the wiki page says traded under the name Cactus Kate.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.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
single column to clumps freely: this one leans strongly towards clumps freely, read from the growth line below.
Skin
New pups come through strongly and blue.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Fresh growth commonly carries the heaviest waxy bloom before it weathers off.
Spines
The bases carry a distinct orange colour.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
It pups readily, even after being knocked about.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. These plants routinely pup from areoles after knocks or damage.
What the sources say
The wiki page says the seller Verne Robinson traded under the business name Cactus Kate; the wiki's Cactus Kate's Bridgesii page instead says Kate was a separate nurserywoman and that Robinson popularised her plants after her death. The two accounts cannot both be right.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.
