Hybrid
House Spirit
Partially documentedHouse Spirit is an variegate — white tissue against green, rather than the more common yellow — isolated from a Bonny x Huarazensis seedling by a Reddit grower working under the handle MycoloJean. The seedling itself came from Tom Suazo. The grower is selecting two directions from it, a pure albino form and a marbled one, and the name comes from a Celtic tradition of honouring the household spirit.Reported, but not confirmed.
- albino variegation
- white and green
- hybrid seedling
At a glance
Species
No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.
Filed under Hybrid
Parents
Seed parent: Bonny · Pollen parent: Huarazensis
Origin
grown from seed
In the yard
Family line
Parents: Bonny, no entry yet, unconfirmed by our sources; Huarazensis, Other Trichocereus family, unconfirmed by our sources. This cultivar: House Spirit.
The wiki page describes the plant as isolated from a Bonny x Huarazensis seedling and does not say which parent carried the fruit beyond the order the is written in.Reported, but not confirmed.
The longer version
Species, as our sources record it: tagged as a hybrid; traced to a Bonny x Huarazensis seedling.Reported, but not confirmed.
It came out of a Bonny x Huarazensis seedling supplied by Tom Suazo.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The name refers to a Celtic custom of honouring the spirit of the household.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The grower runs an isolation project selecting both the fully albino tissue and the marbled form.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The plant was isolated by a Reddit grower posting as u/MycoloJean.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Character
Not documented yet.
Not documented yet.
Not documented yet.
- Notes
- The variegation is albino, white against green, rather than the yellow-and-green pattern more usual in the hobby.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Both white and yellow variegation occur in cactus; an albino white-on-green pattern is plausible.The wiki page notes the plant has never been grown in sun.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
Huarazensis is a grower's label taken from Huaraz in Peru, not a published botanical name — no cactus name in any genus uses that , and the only plant name that does is a bromeliad. That is part of why the spelling never settled.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Related names
Keep exploring
Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.