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JNG29 OldMan seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Pachanoi
JNG29 OldMan
Partially documented
Also written as JNG29.2406m, OldMan, Jng292406m Oldman Matucana Pachanoi
JNG29 OldMan is a San Pedro collected at Cacachaqui in eastern Matucana, at 2,406 metres — the number in the code is the altitude. The collectors, recorded as JN and GH, state they worked under USDA import permits and with the landowner's permission, and the nickname remembers that landowner. The wiki page carries photographs but no written description of ribs, spines or colour.Reported, but not confirmed.
field collected
matucana pachanoi
permitted import
PachanoiField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.
Of the 6 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on and 5 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 JNG29 OldMan. 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: , Matucana.
The entry states USDA import permits were in place and that the local landowner gave permission.Reported, but not confirmed.
The nickname records that landowner, an older man the collectors describe as greeting them with a broad smile.Reported, but not confirmed.
The figure in the code is the collection altitude of 2,406 metres.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The plant was taken at Cacachaqui in eastern Matucana by the collectors abbreviated JN and GH.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
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 Pachanoi 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, Pachanoi. The better-documented ones come first.
