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Scop × VRG seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Hybrid

Scop × VRG

Partially documented

Also written as Scopulicola x VRG, Scop x Valera Red Grandiflorus

x VRG crosses scopulicola with a red-flowering grandiflorus known in the hobby as VRG. Its selling point is the flowers: colour swings widely from one seedling to the next, while any individual plant keeps roughly the same colour bloom after bloom. The vegetative side of the plant was never described in the discussion the wiki page was built from, and no breeder is confirmed for the batch that spread through the community from about 2021.Reported, but not confirmed.

  • variable flower colour
  • stable per plant
  • intermediate spines

HybridCross: A seed-grown plant from two named parents, written mother × father.

Of the 13 things this page says, 13 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Added 23 Aug 2026

At a glance

Species

Not recorded

No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.

Filed under Hybrid

Parents

Trichocereus scopulicolaVRG (Valera Red Grandiflorus)

Seed parent: Trichocereus scopulicola · Pollen parent: VRG (Valera Red Grandiflorus)

Origin

Seed and plants of this cross have been moving around the collecting community since at least 2021.

grown from seed

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Family line

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Parents: Trichocereus scopulicola, Scopulicola family, unconfirmed by our sources; VRG (Valera Red Grandiflorus), no entry yet, unconfirmed by our sources. This cultivar: Scop × VRG.

Seed parentTrichocereus scopulicolaPollen parentVRG (Valera Red Grandiflorus)no entry yetScop × VRGyou are here

Every ring is that plant’s own seal, in its family’s colour — open one to keep going.

Each plant wears its own seal here, coloured by its family — so a cross shows which side brought what before you read a name. A dashed ring is a plant with no page here yet, and a wire is only ever drawn from a parent somebody wrote down. Children are worked out from the other entries rather than stored on this one, so recording a cross anywhere lights it up on both plants.

The line matters as much as the box. A dashed line is a cross we can report but cannot confirm. Every cross drawn here is at that weakest reading, which is the true state of this plant's record.

Drawn 3 generations each way. Everything our sources record for this plant is in the drawing; the family stops there, not the tree.

The is written in the usual mother-first order, but the wiki page never says which plant actually carried the fruit, and no breeder is confirmed for the main distributed batch.Reported, but not confirmed.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: Trichocereus scopulicola crossed with "VRG" (Valera Red Grandiflorus).Reported, but not confirmed.

The breeder behind the widely distributed batch is not confirmed, though one grower recalls using a numbered code in related breeding work.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A grower asking about that numbering system was told there is no central list of codes and growers to look it up in.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

Seed and plants of this cross have been moving around the collecting community since at least 2021.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Flowers
Colour varies widely from one seedling to the next, but an individual plant keeps its own colour bloom after bloom. Colour differs a great deal between seedlings, while a single plant tends to repeat much the same colour each time it blooms.Reported, but not confirmed.
Notes
The wiki page states that count, spine length and colour were never recorded for this cross, and expects plants to fall between the near-spineless scopulicola parent and the spinier, many-ribbed grandiflorus parent.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

Community numbering systems for crosses exist but are not centrally documented — growers ask for a master list and there isn't one.Reported, but not confirmed.The wiki page carries a banner saying it was compiled automatically from community discussion and has not been checked by an editor. the community wiki also holds a separate page for the same parentage under the name Zelly, so it is unclear whether 'Scop x VRG' is a single cross, a family of them, or a label growers apply loosely.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Our own notes record the same headline trait — flower colour varying seedling to seedling while staying consistent per plant — so the two records agree on the substance.Reported, but not confirmed.

Drawing of a cross: one column carrying a rounded, nearly spineless habit on one side and a deeply notched, long-spined one on the other.
A hybrid column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Hybrid. The better-documented ones come first.

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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.