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Sharxx Blue seal. short spines recorded.

Peruvianus

Sharxx Blue

Partially documented

Sharxx Blue is a well-known name in the trade with an empty wiki page behind it: no species, no origin, no description, though the name turns up elsewhere on the same wiki as a parent in crosses.Reported, but not confirmed.A specialist reference does describe it — a short-spined, strongly out of the Dawson collection, named after one grower and put into circulation by another.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.The community's own reference has still not been written.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

PeruvianusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

Of the 15 things this page says, 7 name who reports them and 8 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

Trichocereus peruvianus

syn. Echinopsis peruviana

Filed under Peruvianus

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

A specialist reference traces the plant to the Dawson collection.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

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Family line

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This cultivar: Sharxx Blue. Children: Mommy Jeans (Jeans × Sharxx Blue), Hybrid family, Sharxx Blue is recorded as its pollen parent — unconfirmed.

Sharxx Blueyou are hereChildMommy Jeans (Jeans × Sharxx Blue)

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 longer version

Species, as our sources record it: Trichocereus peruvianus, on a specialist reference's account; the community wiki records no species.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

A California nursery that grows it gives the same origin independently: an Australian peruvianus first found in Dawson's garden, named after a long-standing member of an Australian botanical forum.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.

It also records why the turns up everywhere — the blue is consistent enough that breeders keep using it as a parent.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A licensed California nursery offers open-pollinated seed of it, and records that its plant set two fruits a month apart. That is a second, independent record that the name is genuinely in trade, and it says nothing about the clone's history.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The wiki page holds a title and no content at all.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.A specialist reference traces the plant to the Dawson collection.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.

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.

  • nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans towards nearly smooth, read from the spines line below.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
Strongly glaucous — the blue the name is about.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Heavy glaucous bloom is common in the genus, so a strongly blue epidermis is well within range.
Spines
Short, on a specialist reference's account; no measurement is given.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Short spines are within the genus range; the absence of a measurement does not make the description wrong.
Notes
One of the more sought-after names among those regularly listed on the sales subreddit.Reported, but not confirmed.

What the sources say

The name also turns up in community lists of clone names, with no traits attached. Our own notes list Sharxx Blue among names recorded only as circulating labels with no verified traits, while buyers on the sales subreddit chase it hard — so the name carries commercial weight the community wiki has not documented.Reported, but not confirmed.The TA01 page mentions crosses of TA01 with Sharxx Blue that are sought after for long spines, which is the only trait information the community wiki attaches to the name, and it describes the offspring rather than this clone.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Drawing of a peruvianus-type column: stout and blue with a heavy powdery bloom, ribs deeply notched between large areoles, and long spines.
A Peruvianus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Peruvianus. 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.