The shop is closed just now.The shop is not open for orders yet. Everything here is real and grown in my own yard — have a look around — but I am not taking money until the last few things are in place.Ask about a plant
CLB3 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
CLB3
Partially documented
An adult plant that looks completely ordinary while carrying genes.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A trait can sit hidden in a normal-looking plant and appear in seedlings, so appearance need not reveal genetics.
Other TrichocereusField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.
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 CLB3. 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
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Growth habit
The adult shows nothing unusual, but a small percentage of its seedlings come up multi-headed.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
A useful counter-example to the idea that you can see genetics: this plant's monstrose genes only show in the next generation.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A trait can sit hidden in a normal-looking plant and appear in seedlings, so appearance need not reveal genetics.
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.
