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Ikaros DNA seal. 6 ribs recorded.

Peruvianus

Ikaros DNA

Well documented

Also written as Icaros, IcarosDNA, IkarosDNA, Icaros DNA

Ikaros DNA is not one plant. It is a seed line collected from wild stands in a single Peruvian valley, so every plant sold under the name is its own seedling with its own look. What a buyer can expect is a family resemblance — blue bloom, heavy girth, bright spines, six to nine ribs — not a match to anyone else's. Several well-known named were picked out of these batches, and the spelling shifted from Icaros to Ikaros around 2023.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • blue farina
  • fat columns
  • 6-9 ribs
  • variable spines
  • seedline not clone

PeruvianusNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.

Of the 16 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 13 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.

Filed under Peruvianus

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

Seed is gathered from a set of wild mother stands in one valley of the Matucana area near Huarochiri, Peru, and distributed by a supplier named Julio through local resellers.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

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Family line

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This cultivar: Ikaros DNA. Children: Althea, Peruvianus family, Ikaros DNA is recorded as its seed parent — unconfirmed; SG01 Medusa, Peruvianus family, Ikaros DNA is recorded as its seed parent — unconfirmed; SWIM, Peruvianus family, Ikaros DNA is recorded as its seed parent — unconfirmed.

Ikaros DNAyou are hereChildAltheaChildSG01 MedusaChildSWIM

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 wild mother stands behind the seed are open-pollinated, so the parents change from season to season and are not recorded. Several familiar names are selections or redistributions out of the same line rather than unrelated clones — Althea and SWIM among them, along with a field accession number carried in this library.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: Peruvian Trichocereus; described as a seedline rather than a single clone.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Because those stands are open-pollinated, which plants contribute pollen changes each season, so batches differ from year to year.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Around 2023 the distributor moved the spelling from Icaros to IkarosDNA, a change growers link to Quechua spelling conventions.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Several circulating names are said to come from the same genetics: Los Gentiles, the seed sold as Verne's Wild Andes, plus material catalogued under the accession BK08612.4.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Named selections picked out of these seed batches include Althea and SWIM.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The wiki page corrects a common belief about Sharxx: it records that clone as originating at the Dawson farm, in central Victoria in Australia, before Julio began selling under the Icaros name, while allowing that it probably shares the same Peruvian regional genetics.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

Seed is gathered from a set of wild mother stands in one valley of the Matucana area near Huarochiri, Peru, and distributed by a supplier named Julio through local resellers.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Notes
Seedlings typically show the Matucana look: blue , thick girthy columns and brightly coloured spines.Reported, but not confirmed. counts run about six to nine, with notch depth varying plant to plant.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Six to nine ribs with variable notch depth sits squarely in the genus's usual range. are rounded and felted anywhere from pale grey to brown.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Rounded areoles with felt ageing from pale grey to brown is standard for these columnar cacti. is the most variable feature, from short honey-coloured spines through to long, stout dark brown or grey ones.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Spination is indeed the least stable character, and that colour and size range is normal variation. plants have been found and selected out of these batches.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

Growers have claimed Sharxx is an Icaros selection; the wiki page traces its history to Australia instead, while allowing the underlying genetics may come from the same region. Whether the seed behind some other coded plants, such as JN61, originally came from the same supplier is guessed at but unconfirmed.Reported, but not confirmed.

Drawing of a peruvianus-type column: stout and blue with a heavy powdery bloom, ribs deeply notched between large areoles, and long spines.
A Peruvianus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Peruvianus. The better-documented ones come first.

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