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Huarazensis (HZ) seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
Huarazensis (HZ)
Partially documented
Also written as HZ, Huarazensis, Huaranzensis
A commonly traded name that this yard's own records spell differently.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.
Other TrichocereusNamed 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.
This cultivar: Huarazensis (HZ). Children: Greg, Hybrid family, Huarazensis (HZ) is recorded as its seed parent — unconfirmed; Huaranzensis × Scop, Hybrid family, Huarazensis (HZ) is recorded as its seed parent — unconfirmed; House Spirit, Hybrid family, Huarazensis (HZ) is recorded as its pollen parent — unconfirmed; Zombie, Hybrid family, Huarazensis (HZ) is recorded as its pollen parent — unconfirmed.
Every ring is that plant’s own seal, in its family’s colour — open one to keep going. Arrow keys move between them.
Each plant wears its own seal here, coloured by its family — so a cross shows which side brought what before you read a name. A dashed ring is a plant with no page here yet, and a wire is only ever drawn from a parent somebody wrote down. Children are worked out from the other entries rather than stored on this one, so recording a cross anywhere lights it up on both plants.
The line matters as much as the box. A dashed line is a cross we can report but cannot confirm. Every cross drawn here is at that weakest reading, which is the true state of this plant's record.
Drawn 3 generations each way. Everything our sources record for this plant is in the drawing; the family stops there, not the tree.
The longer version
The name is not a published botanical one. A specialist reference records it as a commercial line of going back to the Peruvian seed seller Karel Knize, who offered seed and plants from a wild population at Huaraz, and traces the in the hobby to a single an American grower bought from him.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The same reference reads the Huarazino seed collection, which has its own entry here, as probably taken from the same wild plants.Reported, but not confirmed.
A Californian nursery breeding with this plant says the line was originally imported from Karel Knize and was spread through the community by a grower it names, and that after more than twenty years it stays in high demand.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Knize is the collector behind the KK numbers elsewhere in this library, so this places the name in a route the register already knows — as one seller's account of where the material came from, not as a collection record.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.
Notes
A name that comes up often enough on the sales subreddit to be easy to find, and an approachable one to start a collection with.Reported, but not confirmed.
What the sources say
The market writes "Huarazensis (HZ)"; this yard writes "Huaranzensis". Same name, two spellings, and a search has to handle both.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
A Trichocereus 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, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.
