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Grandfather seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
Grandfather
Name only
Grandfather is filed as a Peruvian and that is the entire record. Nothing else about it is written down anywhere we can cite: no collection, no finder, no date, no description of the plant. The page is short for that reason — a name this evocative invites invented character, and a page padded with it would be worth less than one honest sentence.Reported, but not confirmed.
peruvianus
PeruvianusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 4 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 3 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.
No source in this library records a cross for Grandfather. 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: Trichocereus Peruvian.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the record holds
The whole wiki entry is the name plus a Peruvian species label.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.
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
No specialist reference, Australian catalogue or nomenclatural index records anything further about this name.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
A Peruvianus 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, Peruvianus. The better-documented ones come first.
