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Q Tip is a melty, seedling picked out of a 2017 batch of breeder's seed and named by the grower who spotted it. Its parents are recorded as Olivia and Sharxx, in that order, which on the wiki's convention makes Olivia the . Beyond the melty growth habit the wiki page records no measurements, though it does carry several photographs.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
melty growth
monstrose form
HybridCross: A seed-grown plant from two named parents, written mother × father.
Of the 6 things this page says, 6 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
Parents: Olivia, Other Trichocereus family, unconfirmed by our sources; Sharxx, no entry yet, unconfirmed by our sources. This cultivar: Q Tip (Olivia × Sharxx).
Parents
This cultivar
Seed parentOliviaPollen parentSharxxno entry yetQ Tip (Olivia × Sharxx)you are here
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 wiki page writes the as Olivia × Sharxx; the wiki's convention is mother first, father second. The father is written only as "Sharxx", which is close to but not identical with the name Sharxx Blue recorded elsewhere, so the two should not be merged without better evidence.Reported, but not confirmed.
The longer version
It is a selected out of Misplant seed sown in 2017.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The plant was found and named by Kim Donaldson.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.
Growth habit
A melty, monstrose — that is what it was selected for.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
The father is written only as "Sharxx" here, while our own notes record a clone called Sharxx Blue; whether these are the same plant is not stated anywhere we have read.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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.
