Dawsons Short Spine Terscheckii Crest aka DSST Crest ππ΅π¦πΊπΊπΈπ
Dawsons Short Spined Terscheckii Crest. Iβm truly honored to have this piece of Australian history in my garden. In my opinion the Holy Grail.
History from Michael Arnold:
Originally from the Dawsons garden in Bendigo Victoria.
Dawsons had a share in the Blossfeldt expedition to South America in the 1920βs.
Odds are the DSST is a habitat Terscheckii.
The crested form was from the front garden DSST which collapsed shortly after the current owner, John, inherited the gardens.
It lay on the front foot path outside the gardens for a while until someone stole a chunk so John at Dawsons sold the huge bit to a collector.
During Covid, Lyle from Roraima Nursery in Victoria bought a collection from a farm and in that collection was the lost huge DSST chunk.
Lyle then propped the DSST in to several pieces and grew them on their own roots.
Once some of us found out about this we did a couple trips to Roraima Nursey and bought what we could of the own roots DSST crests, a mate and myself cut ours and propped them onto super Pedro and terschekii.