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Frankie seal. heavy spines recorded.

Other Trichocereus

Frankie

Grown herePartially documented

Frankie is an Australian plant of unknown origin that came down to the grower Rodni Chisar from their grandfather. The community wiki describes it in one word, notchy, and records nothing else: no species, no spine or detail, and no wider distribution history. It is a good example of a name that carries a family story rather than a documented .Reported, but not confirmed.

  • notchy ribs
  • family provenance

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

Of the 10 things this page says, 4 name who reports them and 6 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

The plant comes from Australia and its origin beyond that is unknown.

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 Frankie. 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.

Rodni Chisar obtained it from their grandfather.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The plant comes from Australia and its origin beyond that is unknown.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans strongly towards heavily spined, read from the spines line below.

  • Not documented yet.

Ribs
Densely ribbed.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Dense ribbing is well within the range this genus shows.Described as notchy.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Notching between areoles is a common and unremarkable feature on these stems.
Spines
Heavy, and dramatic at the growing tip.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

What the sources say

The name turns up in a community list of names, with no traits attached.Reported, but not confirmed.Everything above is the owner's own description of their own plant.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.Our own notes record the owner's Frankie as densely ribbed with heavy and a dramatic spine burst at the tip, and notes our earlier sources had only the name; the wiki adds an Australian family but no matching trait description, so it is not certain the two are the same plant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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