Hybrid

Mama Llama

Partially documented

Mama Llama is grown for its colour rather than its shape: the one thing every account agrees on is a heavy blue, waxy bloom that deepens as the plant ages. Community notes tie it to the breeder Misplant and call it a "Kim" , though which plant Kim refers to is left open. Nobody has written down a count, a spine description or detail, so past the colour this is barely described.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

blue skin
glaucous with age
shade keeps blue

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

Of the 11 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 10 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 Hybrid

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

The wiki page describes the clone's beginnings as only part-known and links it to hybridising work by a breeder abbreviated MP, a handle it ties to Misplant.

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 Mama Llama, 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.

Recorded as a "Kim" cross made by the breeder abbreviated MP, associated with Misplant. The wiki page hedges twice over: which plant "Kim" is (possibly the Kimura, possibly one called Kim's ) and which side of the cross it sat on are both left open.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

It is listed as a "Kim" cross, with the wiki page unsure whether Kim means the clone Kimura or one called Kim's Pachanoi.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The Huntington Botanical Garden came up in the discussion around this clone, but the wiki page states that no direct link to the institution has been confirmed.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The wiki page describes the clone's beginnings as only part-known and links it to hybridising work by a breeder abbreviated MP, a handle it ties to Misplant.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.

Skin: The plant is known above all for turning strongly , developing a blue as it matures.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Developing a heavy glaucous blue coating with age is well within normal for the genus.
Ribs: ribs, spines and areoles: no measurements or descriptions are recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit: Filtered light or part shade is advised to keep the waxy blue coating, which harsh direct sun can wear off.Reported, but not confirmed.
Notes: One grower reports that every Kim cross they have raised from MP goes through a blue phase at some point in its life.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.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The wiki page calls the origin partly speculative and does not confirm the Kim parentage, so the lineage is a community reading rather than a breeder's record.Reported, but not confirmed.

A hybrid column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Hybrid. 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.

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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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