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

Other Trichocereus

Super Pedro

Partially documented

Super Pedro is a seedling nobody planned. It was raised by the grower Jim Hall at Cactus Country, the long-running farm in northern Victoria, out of a batch of seed that arrived with no labels on it — so its parents were never recorded and, short of testing, never will be. Growers first read it as a crossed with a ; the current reading leans on the body and the flower to put scopulicola in the mix without settling the other half. What it is actually grown for is speed and girth, and for the waxy blue cast it sometimes carries.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • fast
  • thick columns
  • sometimes glaucous

Other TrichocereusInformal label: Shorthand or a describing label rather than a cultivar name. It does not promise one specific plant.

Of the 10 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 9 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 source named a species for this one.

Filed under Other Trichocereus

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

Raised by the grower Jim Hall at Cactus Country out of unlabelled seed. The source credits them with the plant rather than explicitly with the name.

grown from seed

In the yard

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Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a confirmed cross for Super Pedro, and no other entry here names it as a parent. What the record does hold is below.

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.

Grown from unlabelled seed, so the was never recorded and the exact parentage is stated as unknown. Early opinion called it a pachanoi by scopulicola; the current reading takes the body and the flower to point at scopulicola without fixing the other side. No parent is documented, so none is published as one.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

It came out of an unlabelled seed batch raised by the grower Jim Hall at Cactus Country, the farm in northern Victoria, Australia.Reported, but not confirmed.

The wiki page for this name holds a title and no content at all. A Californian nursery selling says the originates at Cactus Country in Victoria, Australia, that the garden's owner named it for its size and growth, and that it is fairly common in South Australia too.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.That garden publishes its own history and is a registered source here, so this is a trade account that points at somewhere that can be asked directly.Reported, but not confirmed.

What the record holds

The wiki page holds a title and no content at all.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 steady to fast grower: this one leans towards fast grower, read from the growth line below.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
Sometimes carries a , waxy cast.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. The waxy bloom varies with light, season and handling, so an on-and-off glaucous cast is expected.
Growth habit
Fast and thick, which is most of why it is sought after.Reported, but not confirmed.

What the sources say

The parentage reading has moved: growers first took it for a pachanoi by scopulicola cross, and the current view puts scopulicola in it while acknowledging the plant looks clearly unlike the standard scopulicola in circulation. Neither reading is a record of the cross.Reported, but not confirmed.

Drawing of two plain Trichocereus columns of different heights, standing for the wider genus rather than one plant.
A Trichocereus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Other Trichocereus. 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.