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Coyote seal. 5 ribs recorded.

Other Trichocereus

Coyote

Well documented

Coyote is a Californian find: Bashir Al-Saguari came across the mother stands around 2021 on the edge of a private property in East County, San Diego, and named it for the coyotes calling in the canyon below while the cuts were being taken. Its owner traced the plant back about thirty years to growers near Alpine. It shows blue , medium yellow spines and five to eight moderately notched ribs, but which species it belongs to is genuinely open.Reported, but not confirmed.

  • blue farina
  • yellow spines
  • 5-8 ribs
  • moderate notching

Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

Of the 12 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 11 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

Bashir Al-Saguari, at the moment of collection.

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

In the yard

Not in the yardAsk if you are after one

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Coyote. 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: unresolved — read variously as a hybrid, as with unusually short spines, or as Trichocereus with unusually long ones.Reported, but not confirmed.

The mother stands grew along the edge of a private property belonging to a seller of ornamental succulents.Reported, but not confirmed.

That owner said the plant had come to them roughly thirty years earlier from growers near Alpine, California.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The name was chosen during collection, after the coyotes calling in the canyon below the property.Reported, but not confirmed.

It has been used in seed crosses, including one recorded as Coyote x Daniel.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

Bashir Al-Saguari, known on Reddit as Grodysattva, found the plant in San Diego's East County in about 2021.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
A blue farina.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A blue glaucous farina is a standard skin character here and needs no special explanation.
Ribs
Usually five to eight, with notching of moderate depth.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Spines
Medium length and yellow.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The wiki page offers three readings of the plant: a hybrid, a short-spined peruvianus, or a long-spined pachanoi. Community usage leans toward peruvianus, but the entry does not settle it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Two of the readings on offer here collapse into one under the naming now in use: pachanoi sits inside as a and peruvianus is folded into macrogonus outright, so a short-spined peruvianus and a long-spined pachanoi are the same species today, and the live question for this is therefore only whether it is a hybrid or not.Reported, but not confirmed.

Drawing of two plain Trichocereus columns of different heights, standing for the wider genus rather than one plant.
A Trichocereus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

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.