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
Zeus seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
Zeus
Partially documented
Zeus is one of the few in this library with a recorded origin outside the Americas, Australia or Europe: a specialist reference records the plant as found in Egypt and brought into circulation by the grower who found it.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.The same account says the name is that of that grower's dog. are offered under this name on the growers' sale subreddit by several different sellers, which is evidence the name circulates and is not evidence of what the plant is.Reported, but not confirmed.
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 10 things this page says, 4 name who reports them and 6 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 Zeus. 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
A Californian nursery offering the clone traces it back to a nursery in Egypt that it names, and describes it as slowly spreading around the world.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.That is a second, independent record of the Egyptian origin, and the first source to name where in Egypt the plant came through.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.
A California nursery that grows it gives the same account: a out of an Egyptian collection, named after the grower's dog of thirteen years.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.It names the grower our specialist reference could not — Philocacti — and describes the plant as a recognisably Ecuadorian pachanoi. The nursery is quoting the grower directly for that account, so it corroborates that the story circulates rather than confirming it a second time.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
Found in Egypt and brought into circulation by the grower who found it, on a specialist reference's account.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.
Notes
Our sources record where this clone came from and how often it is offered for sale, and nothing about how it looks or grows.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.
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.
