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J5 Peruvianus seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Peruvianus
J5 Peruvianus
Partially documented
Also written as J5
J5 is a Peruvian torch that goes strikingly blue and carries thick spines. It originates with Jim Hall of Cactus Country in Australia and reached the United States through an Australian grower known as Gussy, where it is still described as scarce. Beyond colour and spine thickness the wiki records no measurements.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
very glaucous
thick spines
rare in US
PeruvianusField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.
Of the 5 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 4 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 J5 Peruvianus. 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
It reached the United States as an import from an Australian grower named Gussy and remains uncommon there.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The traces back to Jim Hall of Cactus Country.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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
It takes on a very heavy blue bloom.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Spines are thick.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Thick spines are ordinary for the genus and nothing here conflicts.
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 Peruvianus 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, Peruvianus. The better-documented ones come first.
