The shop is closed just now.The shop is not open for orders yet. Everything here is real and grown in my own yard — have a look around — but I am not taking money until the last few things are in place.Ask about a plant
Bruce seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Bridgesii
Bruce
Partially documented
The community wiki carries Bruce as a heading with nothing written under it.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.A specialist reference does describe a plant of that name: an Australian out of South Australia, with unusual spines, which it suspects came from seed related to the Eileen.Reported, but not confirmed.A separate entry exists for Bruces Dragon, and nothing in either account links the two.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 9 things this page says, 5 name who reports them and 4 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for Bruce. 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: Trichocereus bridgesii, on the account of a specialist reference; the community wiki records no species at all.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Where the name comes from
South Australia, on a specialist reference's account.Reported, but not confirmed.
Character
A bar is drawn only where one of the lines below states it — never from the species, never from a photograph.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Spines
Recorded as unusual for a bridgesii, without measurements.Reported, but not confirmed.
What the sources say
The separate name Bruce's Dragon still has nothing on record tying it to this plant. Australia's national biodiversity index carries Trichocereus as an accepted genus, with no species concepts beneath it and no synonyms at all.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.So an Australian clone has no herbarium or census record to be checked against, and an Australian origin recorded here will always rest on collections and growers rather than on an institution.Reported, but not confirmed.
A Bridgesii column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Bridgesii. The better-documented ones come first.
