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Trent seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Peruvianus

Trent

Well documented

Also written as Trent Peruvianus

Trent is an Australian traced back to a Sydney nursery that no longer exists, named and distributed by the owner of Shaman Australis Botanicals. It is described as a frosty blue-grey plant that grows fat, with large padded and golden-brown spine tips, and with a reputation for shrugging off disease. The account comes from the nursery that sold it, so read the praise accordingly.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • frosty blue-grey
  • padded areoles
  • golden-brown tips
  • disease resistant

PeruvianusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

Of the 10 things this page says, 4 name who reports them and 6 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Added 23 Aug 2026

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus peruvianus

syn. Echinopsis peruviana

Filed under Peruvianus

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

Torsten, owner of Shaman Australis Botanicals (SAB)

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

Not in the yardAsk if you are after one

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Trent. 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

The account suggests it came from one of the collectors who sold on commission through that nursery.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Torsten, who owns SAB, named the , and it was distributed from that nursery.Reported, but not confirmed.

A California nursery that grows it also records the clone as an Australian peruvianus, and places its and in the same group as Sharxx Blue, Dawsons and Len.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

Trent is an Australian clone traced to the now-closed Arizona Cactus Nursery in Sydney, New South Wales.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.

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Skin
Frosty blue-grey and .One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A heavy glaucous blue-grey bloom is common on new growth in this genus.
Spines
Tipped golden brown.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Golden-brown spine tips are an ordinary colour for the genus.
Growth habit
Fat, and reported to resist disease well.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Thick stems and good disease resistance are both plausible and often go together in the genus.
Notes
Areoles: large and padded.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Large, felted, padded areoles are typical of the genus.

What the sources say

The text on the wiki page is reproduced from the distributing nursery, so its trait claims are the seller's own.Reported, but not confirmed.

Drawing of a peruvianus-type column: stout and blue with a heavy powdery bloom, ribs deeply notched between large areoles, and long spines.
A Peruvianus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Peruvianus. The better-documented ones come first.

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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.