Other Trichocereus

malo1

Partially documented

Also written as malo 1, Malo1

malo1 is one of a numbered set of plants that circulate under the name of the grower who raised them. The community wiki is clear that the numbers mark separate crosses, so malo1 shares a naming system, not a seed pod, with malo4 or malo7. What malo1 itself looks like, and which plants it came from, is not written down anywhere on the wiki page — the entry describes the series rather than the plant.Reported, but not confirmed.

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, 11 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Updated 24 Aug 2026Added 23 Aug 2026

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

The malo plants are traced to a grower who posted under the handle "malo" on the forum The Nook.

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 confirmed cross for malo1, and no other entry here names it as a parent. What the record does hold is below.

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.

No parentage is recorded for malo1. The wiki page states only that each number in the malo series stands for a separate rather than a pick from one seed batch.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

That grower is remembered as one of several forum members who bought material straight from the distributor Karel Knize, abbreviated KK.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Because every number marks a different cross, malo1 and the other malo numbers are not siblings out of one seed pod.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Other numbers are described on the wiki page like this: malo 4 is a huarazensis crossed with , malo 2 is thought to have Lumberjack somewhere in it, and malo 7 shows signs of SS02.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

One contributor adds that malo 8 is a fat, sturdy plant with blunt-ended flowers while malo 5 is slim and pachanoi-like.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Two further contributors agree independently on the huarazensis by scopulicola parentage of malo 4, which is what convinced the wiki page that the numbering marks distinct crosses.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The malo plants are traced to a grower who posted under the handle "malo" on the forum The Nook.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.

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Notes: No botanical description of malo1 itself is on record; the series as a whole is said to run from slim pachanoi-shaped plants to heavy thick-stemmed ones.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The wiki page carries a banner saying it was assembled by a bot from community chat and has not been checked by an editor. The malo entries other than malo 4 are given as suspicions ("suspected", "hints of") rather than recorded crosses.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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.

Learned from

sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0)

This entry rests on one record. Every fact above traces back to sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0). No second, independent source has confirmed it, so read it as one account rather than as a checked fact. Where we do find a second source we name it here, and the register shows how much of this site rests on each.

Links go to the channel, the subreddit or the front page of a site — never to one video, one post or somebody else’s product page. Nothing above is copied from any of them: every entry is written fresh from a fact list, with the source recorded against each fact as it went in.

Written from scratch off a cited fact list, never copied. Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0), @sanpedromastery6262 and @IMDAVESBUD on YouTube, r/sanpedrocactus and medicactus.com's buyer guides, then checked against university extension horticulture, botanical gardens, cactus and succulent societies and the published botanical record. I will not name a plant from a photograph.

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