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JN45 Spineline seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Peruvianus
JN45 Spineline
Partially documented
Also written as JN45.2750m, Spineline, JN45 Spineline Matucana Peruvian
JN45 Spineline is a Peruvian collected on a mountainside at Huaraquina, at 2,750 metres — the number in the code is that elevation. The collector, recorded by the initials JN, states the plant was taken legally under the required permits. The community wiki carries photographs but no written description, so the nickname is the only hint at what it looks like, and we will not read traits out of a nickname.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
field collected
high altitude
matucana type
PeruvianusField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.
Of the 6 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 5 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.
No source in this library records a cross for JN45 Spineline. 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
Species, as our sources record it: Peruvian, Matucana type.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.
The entry states the collection was made legally, with the permits it required.Reported, but not confirmed.
The figure in the code records the elevation of the collection site.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The plant was collected some years ago on a mountainside at Huaraquina, at 2,750 metres, by the collector using the initials JN.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
Matucana in this code is the Peruvian district the plant was collected in, not the cactus genus that shares the word. The collection codes in this library always mean the place.Reported, but not confirmed.
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.
