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Zelly seal. variegated skin.

Hybrid

Zelly

Well documented

Also written as Cz0, Scopulicola x Variegated Red Grandiflora, Zelly Scop x VRG

Zelly x VRG is a scopulicola crossed with a red grandiflora, made and named by a breeder trading as Misplant.net, with the first plants appearing around 2015 by the wiki page's own rough estimate. It is not one plant but a range: flower colour varies widely between individuals, and some seedlings come out variegated all the way to almost no green, while others show none. Densely packed spines and a deep green colour in shade are the shared features.Our house botanist's reading of this: Who made and named the cross, when it appeared, and whether the name covers one selection or a whole batch are records, not botany.

  • variable flowers
  • dense spines
  • sometimes variegated
  • deep green in shade

HybridCross: A seed-grown plant from two named parents, written mother × father.

Of the 15 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 12 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

Not recorded

No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.

Filed under Hybrid

Parents

Trichocereus scopulicolaVariegated Red Grandiflora

Seed parent: Trichocereus scopulicola · Pollen parent: Variegated Red Grandiflora

Origin

Misplant.net, credited with making and naming the cross

grown from seed

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Family line

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Parents: Trichocereus scopulicola, Scopulicola family, unconfirmed by our sources; Variegated Red Grandiflora, no entry yet, unconfirmed by our sources. This cultivar: Zelly.

Seed parentTrichocereus scopulicolaPollen parentVariegated Red Grandiflorano entry yetZellyyou are here

Every ring is that plant’s own seal, in its family’s colour — open one to keep going.

Each plant wears its own seal here, coloured by its family — so a cross shows which side brought what before you read a name. A dashed ring is a plant with no page here yet, and a wire is only ever drawn from a parent somebody wrote down. Children are worked out from the other entries rather than stored on this one, so recording a cross anywhere lights it up on both plants.

The line matters as much as the box. A dashed line is a cross we can report but cannot confirm. Every cross drawn here is at that weakest reading, which is the true state of this plant's record.

Drawn 3 generations each way. Everything our sources record for this plant is in the drawing; the family stops there, not the tree.

Written in the usual mother-first order, but the wiki page does not say which plant carried the fruit. the community wiki files a closely related separately under the name Scop x VRG.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: scopulicola crossed with Variegated Red Grandiflora.Reported, but not confirmed.

Named by a fellow grower.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.

The wiki page dates the first plants to roughly 2015 and flags that as a guess rather than a record.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Many different plants circulate under the Zelly Scop x VRG name, each with its own characteristics.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The cross was made and named by Misplant.net.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.

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
Deep green when the plant is grown in shade.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Reduced light regularly darkens these plants to deep green, so this is expected behaviour.
Spines
Tightly packed.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Flowers
Coloured, and the reason people want the plant. Colour varies a great deal from plant to plant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
Variegation: some seedlings come out variegated, ranging as far as almost no green at all, while the plant pictured on the wiki page has none.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

the community wiki holds a separate 'Scop x VRG' page describing the same parentage and the same headline trait of seedling-to-seedling flower variation; whether Zelly is one selection from that cross, a parallel cross, or a loose name for the whole batch is unresolved. Our own notes record Zelly as named by another grower and sought after for coloured flowers, which agrees on the trait but not clearly on who named it. The 2015 date is explicitly a guess.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The growth our record gives Zelly. A drawing of the form, not of any one plant.The sector runs the length of the stem because it follows a line of growing tissue, not the light.

Filed under the same family, Hybrid. 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.