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Also written as T. peruvianus 'TA01', Trichocereus Australia 01
TA01 is an Australian whose code marks its source, Australia. The nursery gave it this name to settle a clash with another plant circulating as Shamans Garden. Growers describe it as making thick, heavy plants and value it as a breeding parent, particularly in crosses with Sharxx Blue that come out long-spined. Its own count, and colour have not been documented.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
thick growth
long-spined crosses
slow winter rooting
PeruvianusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 9 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 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 TA01. 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
It circulates both as a clone in its own right and as a breeding parent behind hybrid seed offerings.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The wiki's Shamans Garden page records that this name was given to the Australian plant to end a clash with a separate Peruvian seed-grown line carrying the same label.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
TA01 is an Australian clone, the initials standing for Trichocereus Australia, the source it came from.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 towards heavily spined, read from the spines line below.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Spines
Crosses of TA01 with Sharxx Blue are sought after for long, prominent spines, a trait of the offspring rather than of TA01 itself.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
Reported to build into thick, heavy specimens.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Thick, heavy columnar growth is well within what the genus produces.
Notes
Propagation: started in winter root slowly, often taking a couple of months to show roots as spring begins.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. The quoted note is about how slowly cuttings root in winter, which says nothing about what brings on flowers.
What the sources say
The wiki page never states a species; the connection to comes from the Shamans Garden page.Reported, but not confirmed.The wiki page is bot-compiled and unverified.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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.
