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Fabrante seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Other Trichocereus

Fabrante

Well documented

Also written as Fabrante Peru 1, Fabrante Peru 2, Fabrante Pach, Fabrante Validus, Vali Fab

Fabrante is not one but a set of plants collected from a single private property in El Sobrante, California, and introduced by Steven Whitright. The name is a portmanteau of the owner's surname and the city. Four are distinguished: two , of which Peru 2 is the notably blue one, a , and a suspected validus that also goes by Vali Fab. Beyond the blue on Peru 2, no measurements have been recorded for any of them.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • blue Peru 2
  • multiple phenotypes

Other TrichocereusInformal label: Shorthand or a describing label rather than a cultivar name. It does not promise one specific plant.

Of the 11 things this page says, 11 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

Steven Whitright, who coined the portmanteau.

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

In the yard

Not in the yardAsk if you are after one

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Fabrante. 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: several: peruvianus for Peru 1 and Peru 2, pachanoi for Fabrante Pach, and a suspected validus phenotype or hybrid for Fabrante Validus.Reported, but not confirmed.

Whitright sourced them from private land in El Sobrante, California.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The name is a portmanteau built from the first letters of the property owner's surname and the name of the city.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Separate posts covered Fabrante Pach, Fabrante Peru 1 and Fabrante Peru 2, with the validus plant discussed alongside them.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Fabrante Validus is also known as Vali Fab and is linked on the community wiki to the Poots Validus entry.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

Steven Whitright introduced the Fabrante plants to the community.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
Fabrante Peru 2 is singled out as notably and blue-tinted.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
The wiki page records no counts, spine lengths or detail for any of the Fabrante plants.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The name covers several distinct plants from one locality, so a plant labelled Fabrante alone does not identify which phenotype you have. The validus member is only a suspected validus, and may be a hybrid.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Drawing of two plain Trichocereus columns of different heights, standing for the wider genus rather than one plant.
A Trichocereus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

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

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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.