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A hybrid in the yard whose growth cannot be predicted from one section to the next — it may terminate, fan out flat, or run as a normal column.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
HybridCross: A seed-grown plant from two named parents, written mother × father.
Of the 4 things this page says, 4 name who reports them. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for TBHP. 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.
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.
Growth habit
Variable expression: termination, fasciation or plain ribbed growth on the same plant.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Fasciation is typically unstable, so crested, terminating and plain ribbed growth on one plant is expected.That alternating pattern is exactly what are documented to do over their lives.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Monstrose Trichocereus clones commonly alternate between deranged and more normal growth over their lives, so this habit is well within the genus.
What the sources say
The owner's own records give this name two different readings of its parentage, and no outside source carries it. We list both spellings and assert neither.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Our own plant, in the yard. 4 pictures of it on its collection page.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Hybrid. The better-documented ones come first.
