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DBA megalodon seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Pachanoi
DBA megalodon
Partially documented
DBA megalodon is a Andrea Rossi found in the Canary Islands; the DBA prefix on these stands for discovered by Andrea. It is described as one of the best-looking pachanoi in Rossi's collection and has been used as a breeding parent, including a onto a . Measurable detail is missing: no count, spine colour or description has been recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
PachanoiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 7 things this page says, 7 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 DBA megalodon. 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
The DBA prefix stands for discovered by Andrea, and marks the group of clones Rossi found there.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Rossi introduced it to the wider collecting community through the same page the other DBA clones circulate on.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
It has been used in breeding, with a documented cross onto a monstrose cultivar recorded as CPM.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
Andrea Rossi found the plant in the Canary Islands.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.
Notes
The wiki page records no rib count, areole measurement or spine colour, describing the plant chiefly as one of the best-looking pachanoi in the finder's collection.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
Some growers have wondered whether the plant is a mutant knuthianus, but the finder's own classification as pachanoi is the one the wiki page follows.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A Pachanoi 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, Pachanoi. The better-documented ones come first.
