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KR04 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Other Trichocereus

KR04

Partially documented

KR04 is a distributed from a single source, Huan Shuma, that has since travelled to collections across Australia, Europe, the Americas and Canada. The one practical note growers repeat is a weakness: tips can while rooting, and at least one grower rescued a failing tip by the surviving piece. The wiki page records no count, spine or description, and a 2022 with an is out of .Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • rot-prone tips
  • graft to rescue
  • widely distributed

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

Of the 9 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 7 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

Huan Shuma is named as the source of the original cuttings.

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

In the yard

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Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for KR04. 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

It has since spread widely, with plants reported across Europe and Australia, and in Peru, Mexico, Chile, Canada and the United States.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Around 2022 Huan Shuma crossed it with Echinopsis calochlora, and the resulting seed is no longer available.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A California nursery that grows it reproduces Huan Shuma's own account of the clone: a Chilean pachanoi carried into Brazil roughly two decades back by a shaman, who put it in the ground on a farm, and later rescued from there as the farm's owner aged out of looking after the plants.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.That is the same voice our own record already rests on, relayed, so it adds the account's currency and not a second witness.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.On the plant the nursery describes short spines, a green to faintly blue skin, and notching that grows more pronounced above the areoles with maturity.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

Huan Shuma is named as the source of the original cuttings.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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.

Notes
Growers report that tips can rot while being rooted.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Cut surfaces and soft tips can rot during rooting; that is a common outcome, not an implausible one.One grower saved a rotting tip by grafting what was left of it onto a vigorous hybrid stock.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
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.