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Lupita (MT06) seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Other Trichocereus

Lupita (MT06)

Well documented

Also written as Lupita, MT06

Lupita is a heavy, densely spined Peruvian whose still stands in Huaraz — photographed in 2013 outside the supermarket that gave it the name. Stems reach around 13 cm across, with closely set carrying many short needle spines that are black when young. Growers call it exceptionally tough. The code half of the name belongs to the collector who distributed it, and the first date from about 2013.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • thick stems
  • dense spination
  • black young spines
  • very hardy

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

Of the 11 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 8 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 botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.

Filed under Other Trichocereus

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

named after the supermarket the mother plant stood in front of

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 Lupita (MT06). 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: of the Huaraz-type populations; no species stated.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A 2013 photograph shows it standing in front of a store, and that store is where the name came from. The two accounts differ on whom it honours: the community wiki has the supermarket named Lupita, the specialist reference has the shopkeeper.Reported, but not confirmed.

The MT06 half of the name is a collection code, assigned when the plant was collected in 2013 by the nursery that traded as Aplantis.Reported, but not confirmed.

First cuttings were taken from the original growth around 2013, and the clone has since spread into European and other collections, with some growers keeping it since about 2018.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

The mother plant grows in Huaraz, Peru.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.

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 get thick, measured at 13 cm across.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A 13 cm stem diameter sits comfortably within the thickness range the genus reaches.Areoles sit close together and carry many short needle-like spines, black while young.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Close areoles with numerous short spines that darken young is a normal Trichocereus pattern.Growers describe it as exceptionally tough and say it does best when given room to reach full width.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

Early scepticism about the online database listing for the code was settled by contacting the collector directly.Reported, but not confirmed.

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.