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Bull Trichocereus Bridgessi seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Bridgesii
Bull Trichocereus Bridgessi
Partially documented
Also written as Bull
Bull is a that reached collections by way of Irving, who was living in Israel at the time, with the find recorded around the Jordan river valley. Growers describe fat, fast columns that tend to grow melty and take on blue tones through summer. It is rarely offered for sale, and no count or spine detail has been recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
melty growth
fat columns
fast grower
summer blue
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 6 things this page says, 2 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 Bull Trichocereus Bridgessi. 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
The area of the find is given as the Jordan river valley in Israel.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The wiki page notes it is rarely offered for sale.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The plant came from Irving, during a period spent living in Israel.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
slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans towards fast grower, read from the growth line below.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Skin
It takes on blue tones over summer.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Waxy bloom often deepens to blue tones under strong summer sun.
Growth habit
Fat, fast-growing columns with a tendency toward melty growth.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Fast, thick columns and occasional melty growth are well within the genus.
What the sources say
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
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.
