La Mirada Angelo (LMA)

Description

La Mirada Angelo (LMA) is a select collector Trichocereus cutting from our collection, a grower-direct San Pedro / Trichocereus clone named in our local Southern California tradition. Its upright columnar form makes it a rewarding ornamental for the garden or a named-clone collection. This Cut to Order item is cut from the mother plant after you order, then dried and callused here on the farm for about two weeks before it ships. Care: bright light, a fast-draining cactus mix, and sparing water once established.

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The story behind La Mirada Angelo (LMA)

This one began as a hedge in a La Mirada front yard that had been standing roughly thirty-five years before anyone in the hobby knew it existed. When the homeowner's husband, Angelo, passed away, the plant was renamed in his memory; before that it simply went around as the La Mirada bridgesii. She will happily tell you she thinks it is an ugly thing, while every visitor who walks past tells her the opposite, which may be the most Southern California conversation possible. We handle its distribution, so cuttings trace back to that original stand rather than to a reseller's best guess.

On the plant, the tell is the top. Upper sections come in largely spineless, with notched, slightly scalloped areoles marching up the ribs. Lower down, where spines do form, they start out yellow and bleach toward white as they age in the sun. A yard plant that old was never coddled, and ours are not either: hard-grown outdoors, so healed sun stress and old bug bites read as character on the stem instead of as damage. Take a cutting of this one and you are propagating a thirty-five-year-old survivor, not a nursery-forced clone that has never seen a bad winter.

Compare La Mirada Angelo with the other named clones in our guide to named collector clones, or read up on the species in our Trichocereus bridgesii buyer’s guide.