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Ichoca seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
Ichoca
Partially documented
Ichoca is named after a small village in Ancash, in northern Peru. It was released by the Chavin herbalists in 2017, with a second seed batch the following year and a few living passed to community members. What the plant actually looks like — ribs, spines, colour — has never been written down, so the name currently travels without a description attached.Reported, but not confirmed.
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 6 things this page says, 6 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 Ichoca. 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
A further seed batch followed in 2018, and living cuttings went to a handful of community members.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The name belongs to a small village in the Ancash region of northern Peru.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A California nursery that grows it gives the same locality independently: the name comes from a village in Ancash, Peru. It files the plant as a santaensis while saying that is what some people call it rather than a settled name, and describes short spines and a blue that read partly and possibly partly .Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
Huan Shuma records that the Chavin herbalists released Ichoca in 2017.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 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.
