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J3 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Hybrid

J3

Partially documented

Also written as J-3

J3 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.

At a glance

Species

Not recorded

No source named a species for this one.

Filed under Hybrid

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

One of the J-series hybrids grown at Cactus Country, Strathmerton, Victoria, and named after the garden's owner.

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

In the yard

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a confirmed cross for J3, 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.

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Notes
Our sources record where this plant was grown and nothing about how it looks.

What the sources say

Growers usually label the J . A specialist reference reads at least one of the series as a peruvianus hybrid rather than a peruvianus, and that disagreement is recorded here rather than settled.Reported, but not confirmed.

Drawing of a cross: one column carrying a rounded, nearly spineless habit on one side and a deeply notched, long-spined one on the other.
A hybrid column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

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

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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.