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Shamans Garden seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Peruvianus
Shamans Garden
Partially documented
Also written as T. peruvianus 'Shamans Garden'
Shamans Garden is a case study in why a name is not a guarantee of a plant. Two unrelated lines circulated under it — one grown from seed collected in Peru, one Australian — until the Australian nursery renamed its plant TA01 to break the tie. No physical description of either plant has been recorded, so the entry is about the naming history rather than the cactus.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
disputed name
peruvianus type
PeruvianusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 9 things this page says, 9 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source names a mother or a father for this one.
Origin
Two different plants have carried this name: one raised from seed collected in a shaman's garden in Peru, and an Australian clone first circulated under the same label.
no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line
No source in this library records a cross for Shamans Garden. 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
To settle the clash, the person behind Australia renamed the Australian plant T. peruvianus 'TA01'.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
By that person's account the label was applied in good faith, and the mistake only surfaced when a quite different plant arrived under the same name from another grower.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
One grower also recalls a story about an actual shaman's garden in which the plant involved was a , but the wiki page leaves that unverified.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
Two different plants have carried this name: one raised from seed collected in a shaman's garden in Peru, and an Australian clone first circulated under the same label.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.
Notes
The wiki page records no count, spacing, spine measurements or colour, noting only that growers consider it a good-looking plant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
The wiki page is bot-compiled and unverified. It records but does not confirm a further claim that a bridgesii, not a or peruvianus, was the plant in the original shaman's garden story.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Whether the Peruvian seed-grown line still circulates under the old name is not stated, so buyers may still meet either plant.Reported, but not confirmed.
A Peruvianus 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, Peruvianus. The better-documented ones come first.
