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Weird Worm is a , import from Brazil, described by the grower who brought it in. The odd growth is the attraction and also the problem: it is unstable and prone to fungal trouble, so the grower sprays a fungicide and keeps on hand in case a piece needs rescuing. No species, count or spine detail is recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
monstrose
variegated
fungus-prone
keep graft stock
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 5 things this page says, 5 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for Weird Worm. 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.
Where the name comes from
The grower who supplies the account imported the plant from a friend, Joao Vianna, in Brazil.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.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Growth habit
Strange monstrose growth combined with variegation.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
Health: the odd growth is fickle and inclined to fungal trouble, so the grower treats it with the fungicide mancozeb.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Propagation: the advice is to keep grafting stock ready, because the plant does better kept on its own.Reported, but not confirmed.
What the sources say
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
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.
