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
SCG16 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
SCG16
Partially documented
SCG16 is a collection code that growers trade under as if it were a name.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.Listings carrying it run from 2023 to 2026.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.What sellers offer under it is usually tip .Reported, but not confirmed.It is also written as one side of a .Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.We have found no history behind the name — and an entry that says that is worth more than one that guesses.Reported, but not confirmed.
Other TrichocereusField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.
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 in this library records a cross for SCG16. 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
The same nursery notes that the plant looks like two different things depending on treatment: grown hard it is among the gnarliest and most notched it has seen, while in the ground it stays plump and smooth.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
A licensed California nursery gives the source as a named nursery in the Red Canyon Desert.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.
