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LMA (La Mirada Angelo) seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Bridgesii

LMA (La Mirada Angelo)

Well documented

Also written as LMA, La Mirada Angelo, La Mirada bridgesii, Angelo La Mirada (LMA)

Angelo La Mirada, usually shortened to LMA, comes from a suburban stand about 35 years old and was renamed in memory of the homeowner's late husband. Growers describe notchy , largely spineless upper growth, and spines that fade from yellow to white with sun. MediCactus has been the main route by which reached other collections.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • spineless upper growth
  • notchy areoles
  • bleaching spines

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

Of the 12 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 9 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 Bridgesii

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

Renamed by the household after the homeowner's late husband; the person who applied the name is not given.

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 LMA (La Mirada Angelo). 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

The is a stand roughly 35 years old at a private home.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

It was renamed in memory of the homeowner's husband, who had recently died.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The wiki page notes the homeowner does not like the look of the plant even though visitors praise it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Cuttings have been distributed by the nursery MediCactus.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.

Where the name comes from

La Mirada is the town of the original stand; Angelo is the man who grew it.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.

Ribs
The areoles are notchy.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Notched or indented areoles are a normal and frequently seen areole form in the genus.
Spines
Named among the thin-spined that go bald easily — the spines drop off with handling. They start yellow and turn white as they bleach out.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
The upper sections carry a lot of spineless growth.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Near-spineless growth on upper sections is common in Trichocereus and often follows the plant maturing.
Notes
A Southern California nursery has carried it as a cut-to-order piece, so it is a name a buyer can meet outside the community market as well as inside it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

Our own notes, drawing on a YouTube grower, explains the name as La Mirada for the town plus Angelo for the man who grew it; the wiki instead says the plant was renamed after the homeowner's late husband. Who Angelo was is not settled.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Drawing of a bridgesii-type column: slim, with few ribs, areoles set widely apart and long needle spines.
A Bridgesii column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

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

Keep exploring

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