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
No source in this library records a cross for SASS. 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 California nursery that grows it reads the name as an abbreviation — South Australian Short Spine — and records the plant as having grown in an Australian garden for over a hundred years.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.It keeps two of them, SASS and SASS2, and says the second holds the more conventional form of the pair.Reported, but not confirmed.
That nursery files both under terscheckii and adds that a hybrid is likely, where this library files the SA SS entries under validus on a nomenclatural reading. The disagreement is recorded rather than settled: a seller's species label carries no weight against a nomenclatural source, and neither reading is withdrawn.Reported, but not confirmed.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
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
A Trichocereus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.
What we don’t know
Our sources record this name and nothing else — no origin, no description, no dispute. Rather than write something plausible, the page stops here. If you grow one and know where it came from, tell me and I will add it with the source beside it.
