Bridgesii
Bruce's Dragon
Grown hereWell documentedBruces Dragon is a plant, believed to be a hybrid, that was rescued rather than bred: Mark Buckley and a helper spotted a huge stand while working on a property, and the owner, who did not like it, let them cut it down and haul it away. It began selling more widely around 2022. Its parentage is a guess, and the accounts of how it was found do not all agree.
- monstrose growth
- suspected hybrid
At a glance
Species
No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.
Filed under Bridgesii
Parents
No source names a mother or a father for this one.
Origin
no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line
In the yard
none cut for sale right now
Family line
No source in this library records a confirmed cross for Bruce's Dragon, and no other entry here names it as a parent. What the record does hold is below.
Only guessed at: the wiki page calls it a suspected bridgesii hybrid without naming either parent.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The longer version
Species, as our sources record it: believed to be a bridgesii hybrid in a monstrose form.
Mark Buckley and a second person came across a huge stand while helping the property owner with work on the land.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The owner disliked the plant, so they agreed a deal to cut it down and take it away.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Wider sales of the began around 2022.Reported, but not confirmed.
A California nursery that grows it gives the same origin independently — a monstrose hybrid out of San Diego, named after a grower called Bruce — and adds what the rest of the name refers to: the dragon trees, Dracaena draco, that he grew.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.It also records the clone as unusually tolerant of humid air for a monstrose, where a pure bridgesii would struggle.
Where the name comes from
One San Diego grower's account: it came from a grower called Bruce in San Diego County, circulated unnamed for years, and only got its name and its value after the mother stand was cut down and the pile of left in the driveway was rescued and passed around.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.
Character
Not documented yet.
Not documented yet.
Not documented yet.
- Growth habit
- Grows fairly normally when young and becomes steadily more monstrose as it lengthens. The owner grows it for the melted dragon-like growth.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.It is described as a monstrose form rather than a normal ribbed column.
- Notes
- One of the names listed most constantly on the sales subreddit.Reported, but not confirmed.
What the sources say
The same grower believes it is some kind of peruvianus hybrid, and says so as a belief rather than a determination. He also notes that owners calling their young plant a "" are usually just seeing normal juvenile growth.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Our own notes, drawing on a YouTube grower, traces the plant to a grower called Bruce in San Diego County and says cuttings circulated unnamed for years before the mother stand was cut down; the wiki instead credits Mark Buckley and a property clean-up.Reported, but not confirmed.The same knowledge file records a channel's belief that it is a peruvianus hybrid, while the wiki calls it a bridgesii hybrid. Neither is proven.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.