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Fool's Breath (4 wind) seal. 4 ribs recorded.

Other Trichocereus

Fool's Breath (4 wind)

Grown herePartially documented

Also written as Fools Breath, Fool's Breath, 4 wind

Fools Breath is filed in the community wiki as a heading with no content. The name is offered for sale in the hobby, sometimes alongside a four-rib description, but that page is a heading with nothing written under it: no species, no traits, no namer and no history.Reported, but not confirmed.

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

Of the 6 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 4 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 source named a species for this one.

Filed under Other Trichocereus

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

Told in the writing

No origin line of its own on file. What our sources do say about where it came from is in the account above.

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

In the yard

We grow this one

none cut for sale right now

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Fool's Breath (4 wind). 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

A California nursery that grows it records where the plant came from: an Australian import out of Moon Unit Botanica.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.It files the plant as a , describes shifting without the full melted-wax look, and says plainly that it is not .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.

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Ribs
The offered ran four ribs along its length.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Low rib counts occur in the genus, and a cutting holding four ribs along its length is plausible.

What the sources say

"" describes a growth event, not automatically a : a stem that temporarily grows four ribs. Rib count is not fixed on one plant, so a four-ribbed section is a phase rather than an identity.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Rib number varies along a stem with age and vigour, so a four-ribbed stretch is a growth phase, not a fixed identity.Our own notes record the name is sometimes sold as Fool's Breath (4 wind), and warns that four winds describes a temporary growth event rather than a cultivar in its own right.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Fool's Breath (4 wind) growing in the yard
Our own plant, in the yard. 3 pictures of it on its collection page.

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

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