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Chalaensis seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Other Trichocereus

Chalaensis

Grown herePartially documented

Also written as Trichocereus chalaensis

A notchy piece with red spines, grown here under this name.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

Of the 8 things this page says, 5 name who reports them and 3 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Added 23 Aug 2026

At a glance

Species

Not recorded

No source named a species for this one.

Filed under Other Trichocereus

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

Told in the writing

No origin line of its own on file. What our sources do say about where it came from is in the account above.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

We grow this one

none cut for sale right now

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Chalaensis. Nobody names a mother or a father for it, and no other entry here names it as a parent.

That is the record, not an oversight: of the 749 names in this library, 693 have no recorded relation either. Most named clones were selected, cut and passed along without anyone writing down what they came out of. A parent goes in here when a source states it and never because a name looks like one — a wrong pedigree would travel further than a blank one, because pedigrees get copied.

If you know where it came from, tell us — a person reads everything before it appears.

The longer version

A specialist reference records chalaensis as a Peruvian species from Chala in the Arequipa region, closely related to — and possibly the same plant as — Trichocereus glaucus, collected by Rauh under K128 and by Ritter under FR1052, and growing shrubby, often creeping down rocky slopes. It notes the same plant has been sold under several names, Sacred Succulents' SS04 among them.Reported, but not confirmed.

A Californian nursery selling under the same name describes the same hot red spines, adds bumpy tubercled growth, and says the plant grows erect to over fifteen feet.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.It also sells a second plant under a Sacred Succulents number that it separates from this one by spine colour.Reported, but not confirmed.Until now the only description of a plant under this name in this library was the owner's own, so this is the first time an outside source has described the same feature.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

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.

  • Not documented yet.

Ribs
Notched.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Spines
Red.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

What the sources say

The name is a published species name and a registered source documents the species; what nothing documents is the plant standing in this yard under that label. A similar-sounding name in an automatic video transcript is still not evidence of the same plant.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

Chalaensis growing in the yard
Our own plant, in the yard. 4 pictures of it on its collection page.

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

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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.