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Tucson fat seal. Plain ring.

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Tucson fat

Tucson fat is reportedly a thick, fast, easily rooted propagated from a large mother stand at a Tucson nursery, having been grown first by a local gardener.

  • very fat
  • fast growing
  • roots easily
  • climate tolerant

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

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Species: reportedly , discussed as having either T. or T. character.

Community discussion links its history to New Mexico Cactus Research seed distributions, and one grower reports a tag reading NMCR S1438/7 I:FR991 alongside seven sister plants.

The same grower says of two of those siblings were traded with a Northern California grower in the late 1990s.

Character

Growth habit
Reportedly high, with plants passing two feet soon after they establish.
Notes
Propagation: reportedly cuttings root readily.
Drawing of two plain Trichocereus columns of different heights, standing for the wider genus rather than one plant.
A Trichocereus column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

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