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China Gold seal. variegated skin.

Other Trichocereus

China Gold

Partially documented

China Gold is a mass-produced from China, kept for the bold yellow-to-gold sectors running through its green . Growers who have imported it agree on the drawback: it is painfully slow on its , with reported to take up to twenty months to root, so most people it. Nothing is documented about who selected it or what its parentage is.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • gold variegation
  • very slow rooting
  • usually grafted

Other TrichocereusNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.

Of the 10 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 7 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.

Filed under Other Trichocereus

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

No record found

We have read the sources we hold and none of them says where this plant came from.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

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Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for China Gold. 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: , species not stated.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

It is a mass-produced clone originating in China.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Plants started showing up in collector circles outside China from about 2023, and possibly earlier, once growers began importing them.Reported, but not confirmed.

What the record holds

The breeder and genetic background of this clone are undocumented.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 steady to fast grower: this one leans towards slow and steady, read from the growth line below.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
Strong yellow to gold variegation against green, which is the reason people want it.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Stable yellow-to-gold variegation on green occurs in the genus and is exactly what collectors chase.
Growth habit
Notoriously slow on its own roots, with cuttings reported to take as long as twenty months to root and to keep growing very slowly afterwards.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Poorly chlorophylled or weak clones do root very slowly and stay slow, so this is plausible.
Notes
Grafting is the usual workaround, and is suggested for struggling plants.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Grafting a weak clone onto vigorous stock and foliar feeding a struggler are both ordinary practice.Rib count and spine measurements are not documented.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The wiki page states no information exists on its origins beyond the fact that it is mass-produced in China.Reported, but not confirmed.

The growth our record gives China Gold. A drawing of the form, not of any one plant.The sector runs the length of the stem because it follows a line of growing tissue, not the light.

Filed under the same family, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.

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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.