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Eileen, a bridgesii grown in the yard. Skin blue-green; spines short, thin, and often just one to an areole. Photograph 1 of 7 of this clone.
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Eileen

Eileen is one of the classic Australian Trichocereus cultivars — a vigorous, blue-green column that grows clean and straight without any fuss.

Read the reference entry → — what the name Eileen means, where it came from, and what other growers record about it.

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Species group
Bridgesii
In the yard since
Not recorded yet
Where it came from
Not recorded yet
Photographs
7 on this page

Anything marked “not recorded yet” is a fact I have not written down. I would rather leave the gap than guess at it.

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Each listing is one specific plant, photographed as it is today.

The story

Collectors keep it around for exactly that reliability; the genetics are strong and the plant just gets on with it. If you are starting on named cultivars, this is an easy one to recommend.

Photographs

My own pictures of this plant, taken in the yard. The drawn frames are my illustrations, standing in until I have photographed the rest.

  • A full-length cutting, named on the stem and measured. · August 2026

  • Line drawing of a clumping cactus, offsets pushing up around the base of the mother stem

    Illustration

  • Line drawing of a branched cactus with two arms curving upward from the main stem

    Illustration

  • Line drawing magnifying a single areole on a rib crest — the felted cushion, its ring of radial spines and one longer central spine

    Illustration

  • Line drawing of young seed-grown cactus seedlings in a shallow pot of gritty mix

    Illustration

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