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Huancabamba seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
Huancabamba
Name only
Huancabamba is a wholesale label rather than an accepted botanical name, and a specialist reference places the material it covers at Piura, in north-west Peru.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The community wiki page behind the name carries no origin story, no collector, no photographs and no description, so everything here beyond the species comes from the one reference.Reported, but not confirmed.
peruvianus
PeruvianusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 7 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 5 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 names a mother or a father for this one.
Origin
A specialist reference adds the one thing beyond that: it is a wholesale label for material from Piura, in north-west Peru, and not an accepted botanical variety.
no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line
No source in this library records a cross for Huancabamba. 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: , and a specialist reference lists the name among the wholesale labels the trade has used for that species, placing it at Piura in north-west Peru.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
A Californian nursery that has grown this material since 2010 sets out how the label came about: seed collected at Huancabamba was sold by a New Mexico seed house as a peruvianus under the place name, a handful of enthusiasts grew it out in the early 2000s, the offspring came to be called by the community that grew them, and most plants now in collections under the name descend from the batch a Californian seed house started.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.That is the mechanism behind the one thing this library already said about the name — that it is a wholesale label for a region's material rather than a botanical .Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Where the name comes from
The community wiki gives the name and a Peruvian species label, with no further detail.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.A specialist reference adds the one thing beyond that: it is a wholesale label for material from Piura, in north-west Peru, and not an accepted botanical variety.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
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
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.
