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

Hybrid

Suzy Q

Well documented

Suzy Q is a colourful flowering hybrid grown from seed by Cactus Ron, with an a generation back in its ancestry. It makes a columnar plant that reaches roughly six inches thick, pups freely from the base, and carries spines that emerge red and age to a blackish red. The flowers are the point of it: very large, deep pink in bud and pink inside and out. Its immediate parents are not named.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

  • large pink flowers
  • red to black spines
  • six inches thick
  • basal pups

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

Of the 9 things this page says, 4 name who reports them and 5 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

Not recorded

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

Origin

Cactus Ron raised the original plant from seed.

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

In the yard

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Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a confirmed cross for Suzy Q, 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.

No parent are named. The wiki page records only that an Echinopsis sits one generation further back, which is why it describes the plant as intergeneric.Reported, but not confirmed.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: a flowering hybrid with an Echinopsis grandparent, which the wiki page calls intergeneric.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

It has been crossed successfully with several other Trichocereus, Cahuilla among them.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

Cactus Ron raised the original plant from seed.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.

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Spines
They come out red and darken towards a blackish red.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
A columnar plant that thickens to around six inches and regularly throws several pups.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. That girth and free basal offsetting are both normal for columnar plants in this genus.
Flowers
Very large, opening from deep pink buds, with pink colouring inside and out.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The wiki page's word for this plant — intergeneric — holds up: the treatment now in use keeps Trichocereus and Echinopsis as separate genera, so the flowering side of this hybrid's ancestry really does sit in a different genus from the columnar side.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

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.