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Darth Vader SCOP seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Scopulicola
Darth Vader SCOP
Partially documented
Darth Vader is a scopulicola found in Australia by the grower Gussy around 2016 and renamed later by JN for the one feature that sets it apart: it is noticeably darker than other scops. Nothing else has been recorded, so count, spine detail and growth habit are unknown for this particular .Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
unusually dark
scopulicola form
ScopulicolaNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 5 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on and 4 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 Darth Vader SCOP. 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: scop (Trichocereus scopulicola).
It was renamed later by JN, who chose the name for how much darker it is than other scops.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The clone was located by the grower Gussy in Australia around 2016.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.
Skin
Markedly darker than the other scopulicola clones it is compared with.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 Scopulicola 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, Scopulicola. The better-documented ones come first.
