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

Other Trichocereus

Otlé

Partially documented

Also written as OTLE, Otle

An acronym rather than a word: Old Town Lake Elsinore, where the original stand grew.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

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

Of the 3 things this page says, 3 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

The letters stand for Old Town Lake Elsinore.

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

In the yard

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Otlé. 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.

Where the name comes from

The letters stand for Old Town Lake Elsinore.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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Spines
Named among the that go bald easily.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.

Keep exploring

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