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

Mysterious Yard
Cart, empty
TSSBP seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Peruvianus

TSSBP

Partially documented

Also written as The Succulent Source Blue Peru

TSSBP is an umbrella label, not a : it stands for The Succulent Source Blue Peru and covers the that nursery sells. Plants under it are typically blue-skinned with prominent ribs and strong spines, but the wiki page is explicit that they vary because there is no single behind the name. Some collectors treat it as a clone anyway, which is how labels like this drift.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • umbrella label
  • blue skin
  • strong spines

PeruvianusNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.

Of the 12 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 10 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

credited on the wiki page to a grower named as Josh N.

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 TSSBP. 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 label is credited to a grower the wiki page names as Josh N., from whom one member bought a plant directly.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Suggested links to other historical distributions are raised on the wiki page and left unverified.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A Californian nursery spells the initials out the same way and, without meaning to, confirms the part that matters: it describes from a of plants it holds under the name rather than from one mother, and records an earlier trade name the same stock was sold under.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.A label covering several plants is what the wiki page says this is, and this is that said from the selling end.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

Where the name comes from

The initials stand for The Succulent Source Blue Peru and cover peruvianus stock from that nursery rather than a single clone.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Skin
blue.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A glaucous blue cast is common in the genus and unremarkable.
Ribs
Prominent.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Spines
Strong, though the wiki page stresses that individual plants vary because the name covers a group rather than one clone.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The wiki page notes that some collectors treat TSSBP as a distinct clone while it is really a group label.Reported, but not confirmed.Possible overlaps with other historical distributions are raised and left unresolved. The wiki page is bot-compiled and unverified.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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.

Keep exploring

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