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Church Hill seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
Church Hill
Partially documented
Church Hill is a New Zealand out of the same garden as Decosta, raised and distributed by the breeder Ross Gurau. The mother stand is remembered as unusually fat and heavily ribbed, and that is the whole of the physical record. What Church Hill is really known for is seed: Gurau kept a dome of big mature and bred from them heavily, so Church Hill crosses have been grown out in a great many gardens.Reported, but not confirmed.
thick columns
high rib count
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 6 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 5 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 Church Hill. 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
Gurau raised seed from a dome of large mature plants, and Church Hill crosses were grown out widely as a result.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The is credited to the New Zealand breeder Ross Gurau, who also put Decosta into circulation.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
The mother stand is reported as very fat with a high count.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Very thick stems with a high rib count are well within what this genus produces.
What the sources say
The girth and rib count are reported at second hand about one plant in one garden — the wiki page hedges them rather than stating them — and no measurement of the clone exists. The breeder has sold the property and stopped, and the state of the original stands is not known.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.
