Other Trichocereus

pink elephant

Partially documented

Also written as bpo3

pink elephant is the same plant as bpo3 — one with two names, which is exactly the problem its own keeper has apologised for. It was a huge backyard specimen that a group of growers dug out and saved, and the second name came from a pink house at the site. Beyond being enormous, the plant is undescribed: no count, no spine detail, no confirmed species. The original stand is said to be in another grower's care.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

very large
heavy columns

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 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

first named bpo3 by Taj; renamed pink elephant by Leonardo Breton

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 pink elephant. 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: , genus only; the wiki page offers and care as a guide.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

It stood in a backyard stand, and a group including Isaac Pena hauled the large specimen out to keep it alive for the community.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Leonardo Breton later acquired it and renamed it pink elephant, after a pink house at the site where it was collected.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Breton has since apologised publicly for the renaming and now calls renaming a clone the wrong thing to do because of the confusion it causes.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The original stand is reportedly still looked after by a grower going by alpine trichos.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The plant was first found and named bpo3 by a person called Taj.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.
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Ribs: ribs, spines and exact colour: not documented, and the wiki page says more work is needed before the plant can be characterised.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit: The people who salvaged it called it a behemoth, meaning a very large, heavy, tree-like column.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 clone circulates under two names because it was renamed after collection; the person who renamed it has publicly said that was a mistake, so bpo3 and pink elephant should be treated as one entry.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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