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Goliath seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
Goliath
Name only
Goliath is registered as a and nothing further — no origin, no grower, no photographs, no description. A similarly named scopulicola, spelled Goliat, is documented in a European collection, but nothing connects the two. Until someone fills the wiki page in, the name is all we can honestly report.Reported, but not confirmed.
scopulicola
ScopulicolaNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 3 things this page says, 3 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for Goliath. 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.
What the record holds
The wiki entry consists of the name and a scopulicola label, with no history attached.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.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Nobody has described the skin, the ribs or the spines of this one anywhere we could cite, so there is nothing here to draw or to list.
What the sources say
Our own notes record a European grower's scopulicola called Goliat, described as extremely fat and spineless; nothing establishes that it is this plant under a different spelling.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A Scopulicola column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Scopulicola. The better-documented ones come first.
