The shop is closed just now.The shop is not open for orders yet. Everything here is real and grown in my own yard — have a look around — but I am not taking money until the last few things are in place.Ask about a plant
Amazonas seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
Amazonas
Partially documented
Also written as T Amazonas
Amazonas turns up as a plant name in grower-to-grower listings.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.Plants have been offered under it from 2021 to 2026.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.What sellers offer under it is usually . Beyond that the record is empty: no finder, no date, nobody's account of where it came from. Saying so is the honest end of this page.Reported, but not confirmed.
Other TrichocereusNamed 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 names a mother or a father for this one.
Origin
On an account a licensed California nursery relays from the grower who named it, the original was collected in the Amazonas department of Peru, in Bongara province on the Rio Utcubamba south of Caclic, at about 1,480 metres, in February 1964, and donated to a Californian botanical garden the following year under an accession number the account gives.
no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line
No source in this library records a cross for Amazonas. 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
That is a relayed record and not this nursery's own: it is one grower's written account, reproduced. What the nursery adds in its own voice is a correction to a reading in circulation — that the name points at the Peruvian department rather than at anything in California — and the observation that the plants it sells were raised from seed off the botanical garden's flowering plants in the late 1990s.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
On the same relayed account the changes as the plant ages, from one to three spines on young growth to five to seven on old, and new growth is bluer than old.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
On an account a licensed California nursery relays from the grower who named it, the original was collected in the Amazonas department of Peru, in Bongara province on the Rio Utcubamba south of Caclic, at about 1,480 metres, in February 1964, and donated to a Californian botanical garden the following year under an accession number the account gives.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
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Nobody has described the skin, the ribs or the spines of this one anywhere we could cite, so there is nothing here to draw or to list.
What the sources say
Neither the community wiki nor the specialist references carry a page for this name.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.A licensed California nursery grows the plant and publishes its own account of it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A Trichocereus 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, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.
