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Ikaros seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
Ikaros
Name only
Ikaros turns up bare, without the second word, in collector listings. A seed line called Ikaros DNA is documented at length elsewhere in this library — wild Peruvian stands, open pollination, a family resemblance rather than a match — and the two names are obviously close. What no source states is that a plant listed simply as Ikaros came out of that line, so we file the name on its own and point at the fuller entry rather than assuming they are the same thing.Reported, but not confirmed.
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 3 things this page says, 3 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 Ikaros. 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.
Where the name comes from
The bare name is recorded in collector listings; the fuller name Ikaros DNA has its own documented entry in this library.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
A shortened name is not evidence of identity. Until a source states that plants sold as Ikaros come from the Ikaros DNA seed line, the two entries stay separate.Reported, but not confirmed.
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.
