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Trichocereus scopulicola seal. 4 ribs, spineless.

Scopulicola

Trichocereus scopulicola

Also written as Scop

is reportedly the species itself rather than a single : smooth, glossy, effectively spineless, with only four to six broad ribs and large white night flowers. Nearly everything in cultivation is reportedly descended from one Bolivian seed collection made by Friedrich Ritter under the number FR991.

  • near spineless
  • 4-6 ribs
  • glossy green
  • white night flowers

ScopulicolaInformal label: Shorthand or a describing label rather than a cultivar name. It does not promise one specific plant.

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus scopulicola

syn. Echinopsis scopulicola

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Family line

This cultivar: Trichocereus scopulicola. Children: Scop × VRG, Hybrid family, Trichocereus scopulicola is recorded as its seed parent; Shift, Hybrid family, Trichocereus scopulicola is recorded as its seed parent; Zelly, Hybrid family, Trichocereus scopulicola is recorded as its seed parent; Huarazensis × Scop, Hybrid family, Trichocereus scopulicola is recorded as its pollen parent.

Trichocereus scopulicolayou are here
ChildScop × VRGChildShiftChildZellyChildHuarazensis × Scop

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On record: Hulk Balls (child), Greg (child), Juice Box (child).

The whole family

Everyone in Trichocereus scopulicola’s family.

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The longer version

One grower states that most or all scopulicola in cultivation descend from Friedrich Ritter's Bolivian seed collection.

Ritter is recorded as finding it on a Bolivian expedition in 1959 at Tapecua in the Tarija department, in cactus forest at roughly a thousand to fifteen hundred meters, and selling the seed through winter seed lists, which is how a plant that is rare in the wild ended up in gardens everywhere.

Character

  • nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans strongly toward nearly smooth, read from the spines line below.
Skin
and stems: reportedly robust stems in dark green to green.
Ribs
Reportedly four to six, broad and rounded, most often five.
Spines
Reportedly extremely short, and frequently either missing altogether or shrunk to tiny blunt radials, so the plant reads as spineless.
Flowers
Reportedly large, white and night-opening, staying open into the morning. Recorded as scented.
Drawing of a scopulicola-type column: smooth-edged and glossy, with very few ribs, tiny areoles and no spines.
A Scopulicola column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

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