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Cactus Kate's Bridgesii seal. Plain ring.

Bridgesii

Cactus Kate's Bridgesii

Also written as Verne's Bridge

Cactus Kate's is reportedly a robust, clumping bridgesii with blue-green , five to seven ribs on mature stems and pale needle spines of one to three centimeters.

  • needle spines
  • glaucous blue-green
  • dense clumping

BridgesiiNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus bridgesii

syn. Echinopsis lageniformis

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Character

  • single column to clumps freely: this one leans strongly toward clumps freely, read from the growth line below.
Skin
Reportedly glaucous, from blue-green through to light green.
Spines
Reportedly needle-like, roughly one to three centimeters, whitish-gray to light brown against the stem.
Growth habit
Reportedly robust columns forming dense multi-stemmed patches.
Drawing of a bridgesii-type column: slim, with few ribs, areoles set widely apart and long needle spines.
A Bridgesii column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

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