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Piag — spelled Giag as often as not — is a that came out of a Berlin nursery and was grown on from a 2015 seedling by the grower who documented it. Its description is the standard scopulicola picture: near-spineless, green, clear ribs, small , with nothing recorded that separates it from other good scops. It has been used as a parent at a Spanish nursery, which is how the name spreads.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
near spineless
green skin
defined ribs
small areoles
ScopulicolaNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 9 things this page says, 2 name who reports them 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 piag. 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 grower Andreas Michael acquired it as a seedling in 2015.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
It has been used in breeding at Pedro Park, notably in a written as scopulicola Giag by Vical1.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The plant traces to Cactus Culture Berlin and to Helmut Matk.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
nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans strongly towards nearly smooth, read from the spines line below.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Ribs
ribs and areoles: well-defined ribs with small areoles, as is normal for the species.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Well-defined ribs with small areoles is ordinary structure for the genus and nothing here conflicts.
Spines
spines and : largely or entirely spineless, green skin.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Near-spineless green-skinned forms occur in this genus, so the description is well within its range.
Notes
appearance: growers simply call it a good-looking scopulicola.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 spelling is genuinely unsettled — the wiki page is filed as piag while contributors write Giag, which matters when searching for the name.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A Scopulicola 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, Scopulicola. The better-documented ones come first.
