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J2 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Hybrid
J2
Partially documented
J2 belongs to a small series — J1, J2, J3 and JB — which a specialist reference records as unlabelled hybrids grown at Cactus Country, the cactus garden at Strathmerton in Victoria, and named after the garden's owner. The same account says the parents of the series are lost, so the behind this plant is not recoverable from any record we hold. are offered under this name on the growers' sale subreddit by several different sellers, which is evidence the name circulates and is not evidence of what the plant is.Reported, but not confirmed.
HybridNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 7 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on and 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 confirmed cross for J2, and no other entry here names it as a parent. What the record does hold is below.
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.
A specialist reference records the J-series as unlabelled hybrids whose parents are lost, so no parent is named here.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
One of the J-series hybrids grown at Cactus Country, Strathmerton, Victoria, and named after the garden's owner.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
Our sources record where this plant was grown and nothing about how it looks.
What the sources say
The species is contested. A specialist reference reads J2 as a hybrid, where most growers label the J simply peruvianus. Both readings are recorded and neither is adopted.Reported, but not confirmed.
A hybrid 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, Hybrid. The better-documented ones come first.
