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Karta seal. Plain ring.

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Karta

Karta is reportedly a vigorous, blue from South Australia, with distinctive ridges.

Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

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The longer version

The name is reportedly the Aboriginal name for Kangaroo Island, in the Ngarrindjeri language, chosen as a location label to keep track of the plant.

Where it comes from

The was reportedly found by two growers in a garden on Kangaroo Island, from a taken over forty years earlier.

Drawing of two plain Trichocereus columns of different heights, standing for the wider genus rather than one plant.
A Trichocereus column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

Every photo shows another grower how this one really grows. Thank you.

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