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KT-Ogun seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Peruvianus
KT-Ogun
Well documented
KT-Ogun is a Peruvian torch grown for colour: heavily that goes strongly blue when the plant gets full sun. The name records two people, the researcher Keeper Trout who supplied it and the grower Zelly who named it, and the plant is said to have been collected by an American visitor staying with the family that gathers material for the Ikaros seed line in Matucana. Despite the name it is not the Ogun , which came from a different Peruvian supplier.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
very blue
sun brings blue
peruvianus
PeruvianusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 9 things this page says, 9 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 KT-Ogun. 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
Zelly, associated with Misplant, gave it the name.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
By community account the original was collected by an American visitor who was staying with the Matucana family that supplies the Ikaros DNA seed line in Peru.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
It is not the same plant as the Ogunbodede clone, which came from the Peruvian supplier Hierbas del Peru, though both trace to the same group of Peruvian collectors who supply a Lima market.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Whether it is connected to KT-Arizona, another blue that Keeper Trout is said to have left with an Arizona nursery, is unresolved.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
Keeper Trout supplied the plant, and Trout's initials open the name.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
The skin is heavily glaucous, turning strongly blue in full sun. Full sun is what brings that blue out, so shade will mute it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
Growers conflate KT-Ogun with the Ogun or Ogunbodede clone; the wiki page states they are different plants that share a regional source.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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.
