Species
Scopulicola
Growers call it a species with very few ribs, essentially no spines, and glossy green skin with a smooth melted look. Popular as a hybrid parent because it passes on smoothness and vigor, growers say.
20 names in the library1 grown here
What to look at
- Ribs
- Reportedly usually four to six, and five is the most common. A four-ribbed Trichocereus is reportedly more often this than anything else, and the species generally carries fewer ribs than the rest of the genus.
- Areoles
- Reportedly small, felted and easy to miss. They reportedly sit sunken into the rib.
- Skin
- Reportedly bright glossy green, with a smooth, melted look to the rib edges.
Every feature on this page moves with age, sun and water. None of it settles an identity on its own, 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.
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.
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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