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Pink Elephant seal. Plain ring.

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Pink Elephant

Also written as BP03

Pink Elephant and BP03 are reportedly two names for one : a huge backyard specimen that a group of growers dug out and saved, which the people who salvaged it called a behemoth — a very large, heavy, tree-like column.

  • very large

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

At a glance

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The longer version

The original stand is reportedly still looked after by a grower going by alpine .

Drawing of two plain Trichocereus columns of different heights, standing for the wider genus rather than one plant.
A Trichocereus column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

Every photo shows another grower how this one really grows. Thank you.

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