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
Coloso seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
Coloso
Partially documented
Blueish and fat, and it flowers extremely heavily.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Blue, thick-stemmed plants that flower freely are entirely normal for the genus; nothing here is implausible.
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 4 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 2 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 Coloso. 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.
Skin
Blueish.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
Fat.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Thick stems are common across the genus, so a fat-bodied plant is ordinary.
Flowers
Extremely heavy.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
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.
