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Slimer seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Scopulicola
Slimer
Partially documented
Slimer is a New Zealand whose value to breeders is toughness: hybrids made with it are reported to survive repeated cold, wet winters without . Its own appearance has not been measured, so the wiki page falls back on what a scopulicola normally looks like — smooth, glossy and near-spineless. The grower most closely associated with it is named, but there is no record of who selected it or when.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
near spineless
deep green
cold-hardy crosses
NZ scop
ScopulicolaNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 7 things this page says, 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 Slimer. 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 New Zealand breeder and collector Ross Gurau is named as the main source of both information and material.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
It has been used as a breeding parent, including in a with the Guru.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The clone comes from New Zealand.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.
Skin
and spines: the wiki page expects the usual scopulicola presentation — deep green, robust stems, prominent and either no spines or tiny ones — rather than reporting measurements for this clone.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
Hardiness: crosses made with Slimer are reported to come through cold, sodden winters without rotting, one grower citing five such winters.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
The wiki page is bot-compiled and unverified, and its cold-hardiness claim describes hybrids rather than Slimer itself.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A Scopulicola 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, Scopulicola. The better-documented ones come first.
