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McRib seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
McRib
Name only
Also written as Macrogonus × Ribshifter
McRib is a wearing a joke. Growers record the name written out as its two parents, a and a plant called Ribshifter, and by the convention this library already teaches, the name on the left carried the fruit. That is the whole of what we can stand behind: the parents are read off the name as it circulates, not from anybody's account of the cross being made, and neither parent has a documented plant behind it here.Reported, but not confirmed.
HybridCross: A seed-grown plant from two named parents, written mother × father.
Of the 5 things this page says, 5 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
Parents: Trichocereus macrogonus, no entry yet, unconfirmed by our sources; Ribshifter, Other Trichocereus family, unconfirmed by our sources. This cultivar: McRib.
Every ring is that plant’s own seal, in its family’s colour — open one to keep going.
Each plant wears its own seal here, coloured by its family — so a cross shows which side brought what before you read a name. A dashed ring is a plant with no page here yet, and a wire is only ever drawn from a parent somebody wrote down. Children are worked out from the other entries rather than stored on this one, so recording a cross anywhere lights it up on both plants.
The line matters as much as the box. A dashed line is a cross we can report but cannot confirm. Every cross drawn here is at that weakest reading, which is the true state of this plant's record.
Drawn 3 generations each way. Everything our sources record for this plant is in the drawing; the family stops there, not the tree.
The parents are read off the cross name itself, which is how the name circulates, and not from any account of the cross being made. Neither parent is separately documented in our sources, and no entry exists for Ribshifter, so it draws as an unlinked name rather than a page.Reported, but not confirmed.
The longer version
Writing a cross as mother by father is the convention the community's own seed pages set out, and it is the convention this library follows.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The name is recorded in circulation written out in full as its two parents, which is how the parentage on this entry was read.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
A name that reads like a cross is evidence of how growers write the name, not of a breeder's record. Nothing outside collector name lists documents either the cross or the plant called Ribshifter.Reported, but not confirmed.
A hybrid 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, Hybrid. The better-documented ones come first.
