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Roof Buster seal. Plain ring.

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Roof Buster

Also written as Roofbuster

Roof buster is reportedly a sales name, not a : in 2021 one grower's cuzcoensis plants got tall enough to push through the shade cloth over the growing area, so the tops were cut and sold under that name.

  • tall columns
  • fast growth

Other TrichocereusNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus cuzcoensis

syn. Echinopsis cuzcoensis

Origin

the grower Verne, in 2021, as a sales name

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Character

  • slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans toward fast grower, read from the growth line below.
Growth habit
Reportedly fast, and capable of real height — they need high clearance indoors or a spot outdoors.
Notes
appearance: reportedly the plants show the ordinary cuzcoensis look, with heavy and tall columns.
Drawing of a cuzcoensis-type column: a column with low, rounded ribs and heavy, long spines at every areole.
A Trichocereus column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

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