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Dean of Mean, also filed under the breeder code WTran02, is a Sharxx by Sina hybrid isolated by a Reddit grower. Its selling point is the , which ranges from marbled through to nearly pure yellow. Nothing else has been recorded, so count, spines and growth habit remain unknown.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
yellow variegation
marbled skin
Sharxx cross
HybridNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 5 things this page says, 5 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
Parents: Sharxx, no entry yet, unconfirmed by our sources; Sina, Bridgesii family, unconfirmed by our sources. This cultivar: Dean of Mean.
Parents
This cultivar
Seed parentSharxxno entry yetPollen parentSinaDean of Meanyou are here
Every ring is that plant’s own seal, in its family’s colour — open one to keep going.
Each plant wears its own seal here, coloured by its family — so a cross shows which side brought what before you read a name. A dashed ring is a plant with no page here yet, and a wire is only ever drawn from a parent somebody wrote down. Children are worked out from the other entries rather than stored on this one, so recording a cross anywhere lights it up on both plants.
The line matters as much as the box. A dashed line is a cross we can report but cannot confirm. Every cross drawn here is at that weakest reading, which is the true state of this plant's record.
Drawn 3 generations each way. Everything our sources record for this plant is in the drawing; the family stops there, not the tree.
Recorded as a Sharxx x Sina hybrid, written in the community's mother-first order.Reported, but not confirmed.
The longer version
The wiki entry was created by the contributor ks_cacti.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The plant was isolated by the Reddit grower u/wtrain77, which is where the code WTran02 comes from.Reported, but not confirmed.
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
Variegation running from marbled to almost entirely yellow.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.
The growth our record gives Dean of Mean. A drawing of the form, not of any one plant.The sector runs the length of the stem because it follows a line of growing tissue, not the light.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Hybrid. The better-documented ones come first.
