The shop is closed just now.The shop is not open for orders yet. Everything here is real and grown in my own yard — have a look around — but I am not taking money until the last few things are in place.Ask about a plant
TPMC seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
TPMC
Name only
TPMC reaches this library as half of a rather than as a plant in its own right: it is the side of CV Favorite, the monstrose-and-crested seedling growing in this yard. Past that, nothing. The letters look as though they belong with the lettered , but no source we can check confirms that reading, and a name that looks like a pattern is not evidence of one. We would rather leave the species open than guess one onto it.Reported, but not confirmed.
Other TrichocereusInformal label: Shorthand or a describing label rather than a cultivar name. It does not promise one specific plant.
Of the 4 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 2 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 only as the pollen side of the cross that produced CV Favorite, which grows in this yard.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Where the name comes from
Our own catalogue records CV Favorite as a Psycho0 by TPMC cross, which is the only place this name appears in anything we hold.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
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
The resemblance to the lettered monstrose series is not asserted here: searches turned up no documented clone under this name, so the shape of the letters stays a coincidence rather than a placement.Our house botanist's reading of this: Whether this name denotes a monstrose clone is a records question, and our own sources say no documented clone confirms 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.
