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Peru Martin seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Peruvianus

Peru Martin

Partially documented

Peru Martin is better known as a father than as a plant. It has been used as the in crosses sold by a Spanish nursery, so its genes are widely spread even though nobody has written down its count, spine colour or how blue it is. Its distribution points to Europe and possibly New Zealand, and its offspring — with and with Matucana-type mothers — are described as strong growers whose follows the mother.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • used as father
  • robust offspring

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

Of the 11 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 10 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Added 23 Aug 2026

At a glance

Species

Not recorded

No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.

Filed under Peruvianus

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

The clone's origin and breeder are obscure, with distribution traced back to Europe and possibly New Zealand.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

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Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a confirmed cross for Peru Martin, and no other entry here names it as a parent. What the record does hold is below.

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.

Its own parentage is unrecorded. It is documented instead as a pollen parent in other people's crosses, notably seed sold by a Spanish nursery.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: , given as synonymous with ; associated with Trichocereus morphology.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

The Spanish nursery Pedro Park used it as the pollen parent in crosses whose seed then went out internationally.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

One grower recalls raising plants from Pedro Park seed in which Peru Martin was the father of several.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

There are associations with New Zealand genetics, though it is unclear whether the plant itself began there or was only ever crossed with material from there.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The 's origin and breeder are obscure, with distribution traced back to Europe and possibly 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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Growth habit
growth of its offspring: crosses with scopulicola and with Matucana-type plants grow robustly, and how spiny they turn out depends on the mother.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
ribs, spine colour and how glaucous it is: none of these are 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.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Some confusion exists in the community about whether Peru Martin is separate from a clone called Pach Martin, and about whether it relates to wild collections from San Martín in Peru.Reported, but not confirmed.

Drawing of a peruvianus-type column: stout and blue with a heavy powdery bloom, ribs deeply notched between large areoles, and long spines.
A Peruvianus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Peruvianus. The better-documented ones come first.

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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.