The shop is closed just now.The shop is not open for orders yet. Everything here is real and grown in my own yard — have a look around — but I am not taking money until the last few things are in place.Ask about a plant
Marty seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
Marty
Partially documented
Marty is a New Zealand kept for one reason: a deep blue, waxy . The story attached to it is that a grower stopped to ask an elderly man about his cactus and was given a , which then carried the man's name. Everything else — count, spine length, how big it gets — is unrecorded, and the origin rests on one person's recollection.Reported, but not confirmed.
blue skin
glaucous epidermis
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 8 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 7 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 Marty. 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
The account on file is that an old man called Marty handed the first cutting to grower Ross G., also given as Ross Gurau, who had stopped to ask about the plant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
That story comes from a single contributor recalling it from memory, and the wiki page presents it as reported rather than settled.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The clone is recorded as coming from New Zealand.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.
Skin
A strongly , blue epidermis is the feature growers pick it out by.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A heavily glaucous blue skin is common in the genus and is a fair field marker.
Ribs
ribs, spacing and spines: not documented.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
The wiki page carries a banner saying it was assembled by a bot from community chat and has not been checked by an editor. The single contributor hedges their own account ("if I remember correctly"), so the naming story should be repeated as a story, not a fact.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A Trichocereus 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, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.
