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Q Tip (Olivia × Sharxx) seal. Monstrose growth.

Hybrid

Q Tip (Olivia × Sharxx)

Also written as Qtip, Q Tip, Olivia × Sharxx

Q Tip is reportedly a melty, picked out of a 2017 batch of breeder's seed and named by the grower who spotted it.

  • monstrose form

HybridCross: A seed-grown plant from two named parents, written mother × father.

At a glance

Parents

OliviaSharxx

In the yard

Drawing of a cross: one column carrying a rounded, nearly spineless habit on one side and a deeply notched, long-spined one on the other.
A hybrid column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

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