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T. candicans 'Gladiatus' seal. heavy spines recorded.
Other Trichocereus
T. candicans 'Gladiatus'
Partially documented
Also written as Gladiatus
Gladiatus is a selection of candicans traced to the Fields collection in Australia, confirmed by a grower whose own came from that garden. Its one recorded distinguishing feature is : shorter than the dense, heavy spines of ordinary candicans. Who named it is a matter of belief rather than record, and no other measurements exist.Reported, but not confirmed.
short spines
candicans selection
Fields collection
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 8 things this page says, 8 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 T. candicans 'Gladiatus'. 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
One grower confirmed the link by matching their own plant, which came directly from that garden, to the pictured specimen.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The wiki page reports a belief that someone in the Field family named the selection, without confirming it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The is traced to the historic Fields collection in Australia, with growers reporting cuttings taken from the Fields garden.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
nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans strongly towards heavily spined, read from the spines line below.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Spines
Shorter than on the densely, heavily spined wild-type candicans growers usually see.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
The wiki page notes candicans is hard to separate from related species by eye, so identifications in the discussion rest on growth habit rather than anything conclusive. It is bot-compiled and unverified. Worth knowing: this name is not a nursery invention. Gladiatus was a published botanical name for this species long before it was a clone label, under both Trichocereus and , which is unusual among the names in this library.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A Trichocereus 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, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.
