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
RS0004 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
RS0004
Grown hereName only
One of the names growing in this yard. Beyond the label the plant arrived with, our sources record no history for it.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Other TrichocereusField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.
Of the 4 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 3 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for RS0004. 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
A Californian nursery says it bought a under this code in 2001 and has grown and propagated from it ever since. That does not say what the plant is, and it does establish that the code has been in circulation for over twenty years rather than being a recent label.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.
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
An accession-style code — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A Trichocereus column, drawn. We grow this one; I haven't photographed it yet.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.
