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Drawing of a cross: one column carrying a rounded, nearly spineless habit on one side and a deeply notched, long-spined one on the other. Named on the drawing: farina, areole, rib, spines, pup.farinaareoleribspinespup

A drawing of the kind of plant, not of any one plant.

Grouping

Hybrid

A hybrid is two plants crossed on purpose, and the name usually records which two. It is a group rather than a species, because the whole point of a cross is that it does not sit cleanly in either parent's description.

43 names in the library15 grown here

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Worth knowing

A cross name read backwards is not evidence of anything — several well-known crosses are written in both directions by different growers.

A clone name is not proof of a species, and a photograph is a pointer rather than an answer.

Growing here

The mother plants this yard cuts from, in this group.

All 15 in the collection →

Names in the library

The seal draws the plant behind the name where the ring can mark it: the ribs, the spines, the growth form. A plain ring has nothing marked on it.

All 43 Hybrid names

The others

Sources

Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0) and from @sanpedromastery6262 on YouTube.

Every photograph in the yard pages and the shop is of a plant grown here, except where a listing says it was grown by somebody else — it says so on the listing, above the price.

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