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KK2148 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Other Trichocereus

KK2148

Partially documented

KK2148 is one of Karel Knize's collection numbers, covering plants from Tarma in Peru, and Shaman Australis sold them in Australia for around fifteen years. Plants under it are robust, with rounded ribs, prominent and strong pale-to-brown spines over light green . The species label has moved: they were often taken for cuzcoensis, and the researcher who has followed them longest settles on tarmaensis.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • robust stems
  • strong spines
  • rounded ribs
  • tarma collection

Other TrichocereusField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.

Of the 11 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on, 6 name who reports them and 4 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

Trichocereus tarmaensis

syn. Echinopsis tarmaensis

Filed under Other Trichocereus

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

The number is one of Karel Knize's collection codes, from Tarma in Peru.

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

In the yard

Not in the yardAsk if you are after one

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for KK2148. 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

Species, as our sources record it: tarmaensis, often grouped with the T. cuzcoensis complex.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

Shaman Australis Botanicals sold plants from this accession in Australia for around fifteen years.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Patrick Noll, who writes Trichocereus.net, says the Tarma population is straightforwardly tarmaensis, although the first ones Noll grew read at the time as cuzcoensis.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The number is one of Karel Knize's collection codes, from Tarma in Peru. The collectors' field-number record puts the collection at 3000 metres.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.

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Notes
Stems are robust with clearly rounded ribs.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Thick stems with rounded ribs are typical of the genus.Areoles are prominent and carry strong spines in pale to brownish tones.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Prominent areoles with pale to brown spines fall well within the genus range.Skin runs light green to slightly blue depending on light and age.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Skin colour shifting between light green and blue with light and age is normal here.

What the sources say

Collectors have filed these plants as cuzcoensis; the wiki page settles on tarmaensis while acknowledging the two look alike — and the specialist reference, which sells the seed under this number as tarmaensis, says plainly that a KK2148 could not be recognised as one without its label.Reported, but not confirmed.The two readings recorded here sit closer together than they look. The current treatment carries Trichocereus tarmaensis in the synonymy of the accepted Trichocereus cuzcoensis, so growers who filed these plants as cuzcoensis and the researcher who calls them tarmaensis are naming one species two ways.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

Drawing of two plain Trichocereus columns of different heights, standing for the wider genus rather than one plant.
A Trichocereus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

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.