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SA SS 1 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
SA SS 1
Name only
Also written as SA SS 1, South Australian Short Spine 1, SASS 1
SA SS 1 is a South Australian short-spine selection, numbered one of a pair. The community wiki files it under validus and records nothing else — no finder, no date, no description of how the plant looks. Anything beyond the label would be guesswork until a grower fills the wiki page in.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, 2 name who reports them and 2 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 SA SS 1. 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.
What the record holds
The wiki entry carries one line of content: the plant is filed under validus.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
Our own notes list SASS among names recorded only as circulating labels with no verified traits, which matches how thin the wiki page is.Reported, but not confirmed.The species here rests on a single word on an otherwise empty page, which makes it one of the thinnest species claims in this library. Note also that the current treatment moves validus out of altogether, into Leucostele terscheckii.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
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.
