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Dr Funkenstein, shortened by growers to Dr. Funk, is an Australian raised from a seedling supplied by Sam Frankel. It is kept for two unusual habits: some plants show , and specimens can put out both and normal columns. No count, spine detail or colour beyond the variegation has been recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
variegation
crested columns
seed-grown line
Other TrichocereusNamed 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 confirmed cross for Dr Funkenstein, and no other entry here names it as a parent. What the record does hold is below.
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.
Seed-grown: the clone traces to a seedling from Sam Frankel, with no parents recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The longer version
It came from a seed-grown plant supplied by Sam Frankel.Reported, but not confirmed.
The name is often shortened to Dr. Funk.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
It is an Australian clone.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
Some plants show variegation.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
Specimens can carry both crested and ordinary columns on the same plant.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 Dr Funkenstein. A drawing of the form, not of any one plant.Same plant, same tissue — only the shape of the growing point changed.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.
