Yowie
B · reasonably documentedDocumentation grade: BOrigin is known and broadly agreed among growers, but some details are unverified or second-hand.
name drift low · name is stableName drift risk: lowThis name is used consistently. A cutting sold under it is very likely the plant described here.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES
Distinctive spination — 2 to 6 spines per areole, but always two notably longer parallel spines pointing downward. Strongly defined ribs.
LINEAGE
ORIGIN
Locality:Yarrawonga, Victoria, Australia
Origin note:The original mother plant grew at Yarrawonga, Victoria. Likely traces to material brought to Australia by Harry Blossfeld. Entheogenesis Australis list T. pachanoi "Yowie" among the Fields Cactus and Succulent Garden clones, which ties it to the same Blossfeld expedition material behind the Fields collection.
STORY
The plant likely traces back to material brought to Australia by Harry Blossfeld, the German horticulturist and plant explorer who is behind a startling number of Australian Trichocereus lines. Named for the Australian cryptid.
NOTES
origin_person previously read "mother plant", which is a thing rather than a person, and Harry Blossfeld sat in distributed_by. Blossfeld is the likely route into Australia rather than a distributor of this clone, so that claim now sits in origin_note where it can be hedged.
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