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A bright green cutting held upright in a work glove, with a narrow finger of growth lying flat down the front of it and merging back into the body partway down; yellow-amber spines come in loose clusters off the rib edges.
Growing

Kate's Bridge

Also written as Kate, Kate's, Kate's Bridge (Melty)

Kate's Bridge is known to go melty and weird, which is part of what makes it such a unique clone.

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Species group
Bridgesii
Photographed since
May 2026
Photographs
6 on this page

What it looks like

Growth habit
Known to go melty and weird.

Photographs

My own pictures of this plant, taken in the yard.

  • May 2026

  • May 2026

  • Both pieces named in marker near the bottom end.

  • June 2026

  • June 2026

  • Near the base most areoles carry one spine or none, while the ones at the top fan into full stars. · May 2026

Over time

Photographed over 23 days — May 2026 to June 2026, on 2 different days.

  1. May 2026

    A bright green cutting held upright in a work glove, with a narrow finger of growth lying flat down the front of it and merging back into the body partway down; yellow-amber spines come in loose clusters off the rib edges.
    A bright green cactus cutting held in a work glove over a concrete walkway, its rounded ribs ending at different heights at the blunt top and its spines fanning out in stars from small white woolly areoles, yellow where they emerge and browning toward the tips, with a large gray…
    A small knot of rounded green lobes held in a gloved hand over a concrete stepping stone, four or five long yellow-brown spines sticking out at odd angles, with bark mulch and a gray boulder out of focus behind.

  2. June 2026

    The fresh cut face of a Kate's Bridge stem held up in the fingers over concrete — a rounded seven-lobed star, pale flesh inside a darker green rind, with a ring and a small starburst printed into the cut.
    A small rooted plant held up over a concrete walkway with its dark root ball dangling, one thick lumpy arm on the right ending in a puckered crown and carrying a round dried scar, a thinner spiny stem on the left, in hard midday sun.

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