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SWIM seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
SWIM
Name only
SWIM is one of the named selections growers pulled out of Ikaros DNA seed batches, listed on the community record beside Althea as a pick from that Peruvian seed line. That one line of parentage is everything our sources hold: no count, spine detail or description of the plant itself has been written down, so for now the name marks a documented origin rather than a described cactus.Reported, but not confirmed.
PeruvianusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 4 things this page says, 4 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
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.
Recorded as a named selection pulled out of the Ikaros DNA seed line, alongside Althea. Because that line is a variable seed population rather than a single , the honest phrasing is that SWIM was selected out of it — not that Ikaros DNA is a parent in the ordinary sense. The father, some plant in an open-pollinated wild stand, was never recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The longer version
Those batches come from wild mother stands that are pollinated in the open, so which plant fathered any given seedling was never recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The Icaros page names SWIM, alongside Althea, among the selections growers picked out of its seed batches.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.
Nobody has described the skin, the ribs or the spines of this one anywhere we could cite, so there is nothing here to draw or to list.
What the sources say
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
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.
