Fr991

A specialist reference attaches the number to Ritter's 1959 Bolivian expedition, to Tapecua in the Tarija department, and to the winter seed lists he sold the collection through — and calls it one of the commonest scopulicola strains in cultivation.Reported, but not confirmed.

A licensed Californian nursery growing this material since about 2010 records its own plant's label as reading FR991, Bolivia, and traces it to New Mexico Cactus Research.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.That is a second, independent record of the Bolivian origin and of the NMCR route, and it is a nursery's account of its own plant rather than of anybody else's.

Asked for Trichocereus scopulicola rather than for this number, the same index returns this collection and nothing else: two localities, one collector, no other numbered scopulicola from anybody.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.That is why a single number carries so much weight on this species, and it is still not a statement about where any particular cutting came from.

A Californian nursery sets out how the number reached American collections: seed labelled with it was bought from a Spanish botanical garden by the New Mexico grower the entry above already names, about eight seedlings were raised, and cuttings came from the last one or two he kept back as stock — what Rootstock (stock) means. The same listing carries a doubt worth more than another agreement would be: it reports it as strongly suspected that the plants from that lot are not pure scopulicola but a cross — what Cross means made at the Spanish garden, argued from spines longer than on Australian and Continental material.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.That is presented there as speculation, and as a third party's account the nursery is passing on, and it is recorded here as both.Reported, but not confirmed.

A California nursery that grows it records how the number reached the trade, and that chain is a European one. Very little Bolivian scopulicola seed ever left the country, so most of what circulates was raised in Germany; the nursery says the original FR991 plants are likely to have died in a hard winter, and that Noll obtained seed from Joachim Podschadel before that collection was lost.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Two consequences the nursery states plainly. Plants sold as FR991 are seed-raised descendants rather than one clone — what Clone means, so more than one distinct plant travels under the number; and the collector's field record and the plants in gardens today are separated by at least a generation from seed.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.That does not contradict the field-number record this entry already carries — it is the step between the collection and the market.Reported, but not confirmed.