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Dre Drop seal. variegated skin.

Other Trichocereus

Dre Drop

Well documented

Also written as SPV, San Pedro Varigate

Dre Drop and SPV are two names for the same Southern Californian plant. Monty Corso found and curated it in San Pedro and called it SPV for the location and its variegated arms; Ryan Kolanz later spread it more widely and renamed it after Kolanz's wife. The variegation is patchy rather than whole-plant, which makes it awkward to propagate, and growers in humid Texas report it struggles there. Claims linking it to a century-old backyard stand are unverified.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • patchy variegation
  • hard to propagate
  • dislikes humid heat

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

Of the 15 things this page says, 15 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

Named SPV by Monty Corso, then renamed Dre Drop by Ryan Kolanz after Kolanz's wife.

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

In the yard

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Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Dre Drop. 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: , species not stated.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Corso called it SPV, short for San Pedro Varigate, after the place it was found and its variegated arms.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Ryan Kolanz later got hold of it, pushed it out more widely, and gave it the name Dre Drop for their wife.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Because it went out under both names, SPV and Dre Drop are both still in use for the same plant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

There is speculation that it descends from a roughly hundred-year-old stand in a Southern Californian backyard, possibly brought over from Bolivia, and that it resembles the Jurupa Discovery Center stand and a sixty-five-year-old stand in Highland Park; none of that is verified.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A Californian nursery selling the plant records the same two names and adds the order they came in: it was grown and shared as SPV for a decade or two, the V standing for the variegation on the mother stand, and the second name arrived later and, on that nursery's account, inadvertently.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.It also says the variegation was limited and has not been widely propagated recently, which agrees with what the wiki page reports about how hard it is to carry over.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The plant was originally sourced and looked after by Monty Corso in San Pedro, Southern California.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.

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Skin
Variegated, but only in patches, sometimes on a small part of the plant rather than throughout.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
The variegation is hard to carry over in propagation because it sits on particular sections of the .Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
Growers in hot, humid Texas report it performs poorly there compared with other . count, spine length and exact colour are not recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The same plant circulates under two names, which the wiki page treats as the main source of confusion around it. Suggested links to a hundred-year-old backyard stand, a Bolivian import route, the Jurupa Discovery Center and a Highland Park stand are all recorded as unverified.Reported, but not confirmed.

The growth our record gives Dre Drop. 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.

Filed under the same family, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.

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