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A plant that switches between almost no spines and sudden two-inch ones on the same stem.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Spination commonly shifts along one stem, so near-spineless and long-spined zones can alternate.
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 3 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 1 is 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 Cayman. 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.
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
nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans strongly towards nearly smooth, read from the spines line below.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Spines
Alternates between near-spineless growth and bursts of spines around two inches long, on one stem.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Alternating spineless and spiny sections on a single stem is normal variation in these plants.
What the sources say
The source gives it as a species name we cannot confirm, so we record the label as given rather than treating it as an identification.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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.
