Hybrid

Zombie

Well documented

Zombie is a Lumberjack by Huarazensis seedling that nearly died: its grower the last sound tip onto an Opuntia in about 2021, then cut it free once it recovered, and it reached seven to eight feet in four years on its . The name, given in about 2025, records that comeback. It makes very thick columns and pups freely; and spine detail has not been recorded, and which parent carried the seed is not settled.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

very thick
prolific pupper
fast growing
grafts easily

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

Of the 14 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on, 4 name who reports them and 9 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Updated 25 Aug 2026Added 23 Aug 2026

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

LumberjackHuarazensis

Seed parent: Lumberjack · Pollen parent: Huarazensis

Origin

David Gonzalez

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One grower recalls the as Lumberjack x Huarazensis 'or the reverse', so which plant carried the seed is not settled. The wiki page describes Lumberjack as a suspected or bridgesii-dominant hybrid and Huarazensis as a prominent .Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: a (syn. Echinopsis) hybrid.

Around 2021 that seedling started to rot and only the tip was still sound, so Gonzalez grafted the tip onto an Opuntia rootstock.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The graft took; the plant was later cut free, grown on its own roots, and reached seven to eight feet in four years.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Roughly two feet a year on established own roots is fast but well within what a vigorous plant of this genus does.

Gonzalez chose the name because the plant had come back from near death — Phoenix was also considered — and in reference to a song playing at the time.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Chris Cosby and Al Marks were among the growers who sowed that same batch of seed in the same year and raised siblings, one of them planted in the ground.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

David Gonzalez selected and named the clone around 2025 from a seedling of a Lumberjack by Huarazensis cross.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the record does not agree

Found by comparing what every source we hold says about Zombie, not by anybody noticing. Where two of them take opposite positions, this page shows both rather than picking one.

Whether Zombie is recorded with the same parent named first wherever the cross is written down
- It does not. Zombie is a Lumberjack by Huarazensis seedling that nearly died: its grower grafted the last sound tip onto an Opuntia in about 2021, then cut it free once it recovered, and it reached seven to eight feet in four years on its own roots. The name, given in about 2025, records that comeback. It makes very thick columns and pups freely; rib and spine detail has not been recorded, and which parent carried the seed is not settled. Our page writes this cross Lumberjack first, on the convention that the seed parent is named first. Sellers in the sale subreddit write it that way round in 9 listings from 4 sellers, and the other way round in 11 listings from 8 sellers. The market's usual order is the reverse of ours, so which plant carried the fruit is not settled by this record. Order in a sale title is a convention, not an observation of the cross.
  1 ours / first-hand source, 2 community sources
- It does. One grower recalls the cross as Lumberjack x Huarazensis 'or the reverse', so which plant carried the seed is not settled. The wiki page describes Lumberjack as a suspected bridgesii or bridgesii-dominant hybrid and Huarazensis as a prominent pachanoi clone.
  1 reference source, 1 ours / first-hand source, 1 community source
Nobody has settled this, and neither position is better supported than the other — so this page does not state either as fact.

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.
single column to clumps freely: this one leans strongly towards clumps freely, read from the growth line below.

Growth habit: Very thick, robust columns, and it pups readily.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Thick robust columns and free pupping are both ordinary within the genus.
Notes: Propagation: highly compatible with Opuntia rootstock, and fast once back on its own roots.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Opuntioid stock is used successfully for these plants, and de-grafted columns commonly grow fast once re-rooted.The wiki page records no rib count or spine detail.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Growers disagree

The parent order is uncertain - the grower reporting it says it was Lumberjack by Huarazensis or the reverse.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Our own notes spell the pachanoi parent 'Huaranzensis' in the owner's catalogue and 'Huarazensis (HZ)' in sale listings; the wiki page uses the second spelling, so search should handle both.Reported, but not confirmed.Huarazensis is a grower's label taken from Huaraz in Peru, not a published botanical name — no cactus name in any genus uses that epithet, and the only plant name that does is a bromeliad. That is part of why the spelling never settled.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

A hybrid column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Hybrid. The better-documented ones come first.

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The International Plant Names Index, the standing record of published plant names

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Written from scratch off a cited fact list, never copied. Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0), @sanpedromastery6262 and @IMDAVESBUD on YouTube, r/sanpedrocactus and medicactus.com's buyer guides, then checked against university extension horticulture, botanical gardens, cactus and succulent societies and the published botanical record. I will not name a plant from a photograph.

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