Bridgesii
CSD
Grown hereWell documentedCSD is a slow, strange raised from seed in 2007 by the Australian grower Sam Frankel after the seedling nearly failed to grow at all in its first year and had to be . Established plants develop a distinctive apex of deep geometric notches and sharply angled valleys, with tiny sunken and almost no spines, on vivid green . It was named in a 2014 giveaway in memory of a community member, and its exact parentage was lost when the seedlings were mixed up at sowing.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
- angular monstrose
- recessed areoles
- near spineless
- slow on roots
- moisture sensitive
At a glance
Species
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
rooted · $180.00
Family line
No source in this library records a confirmed cross for CSD, and no other entry here names it as a parent. What the record does hold is below.
Genuinely unsettled. The seedlings were mixed up at sowing, so the wiki page offers two possible crosses — 'ss01 x ss02' or 'SS02 X [Juul's X peruv]' — while one contributor sums it up as 'SS02 x bridgesii'. None of the three is confirmed.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The longer version
The plant was raised from seed by Sam Frankel, known online as Ferret, on the Shaman Australis Botanicals board.Reported, but not confirmed.
Frankel sowed bridgesii seed obtained from a fellow board member in 2007.Reported, but not confirmed.
The seedling that became CSD put on less than a centimetre in its first year while its siblings reached seven or eight, so it was grafted.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A photograph of its first mature growth was posted in 2011.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The name was given in a 2014 giveaway, and the wiki page puts the death four years before that.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.That it honours a member of the board who had died is the part both of our accounts of this carry; the specialist reference gives no date for either.Reported, but not confirmed.
Documented plants now exist in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The parentage now has a third account and it is no more settled than the first two. The community wiki offers two crosses and a looser third; the specialist reference says only that the plant came out of a batch of Trichocereus bridgesii seed supplied by a named member of a different growers' board. None of them can be checked from here.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The owner records it as named for someone in an Australian growers' community; a San Diego grower's account instead says it was raised from seed in Australia and named in memory of a friend who had died. We record both and pick neither.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Character
Not documented yet.
- nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans towards nearly smooth, read from the spines line below.
Not documented yet.
- Skin
- Vivid green with a glaucous finish.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Bright green skin with a waxy bloom is common in the genus and nothing here conflicts.
- Ribs
- The apex forms geometric patterns of deep notches and sharply angled rib valleys.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Deep notches and sharply angled rib valleys at the growing point are a normal ribbing pattern here.
- Spines
- Very short or missing altogether, set in tiny recessed areoles.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Very short to absent spines on small sunken areoles occur in the genus and are consistent with each other.
- Growth habit
- Slow and monstrose on its own roots, but fast, fat and long-spined when grafted — the same clone, two different-looking plants.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.It looks like an ordinary bridgesii while small or grafted, and only shows its angular monstrose form once well established or taken off the graft.
- Notes
- A difficult grower on its own roots, prone to fungal spotting, and named among the clones most likely to blemish.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The owner says it can melt or mark if the conditions are wrong.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.It is slow and is often grafted to speed it up, needs strong sun in cool climates to express its shape, and is easily marked by fungal or oedema problems in damp conditions.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Slow monstrose growth, grafting to push it, sun-dependent form and damp-related marking are all ordinary for the genus.
What the sources say
The two accounts of who the initials honour do not agree. Neither is checkable from here, so both stay on the record.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.Three versions of the cross circulate: 'ss01 x ss02', 'SS02 X [Juul's X peruv]', and a looser 'SS02 x bridgesii'. The seedlings were mixed up, so none can be confirmed.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Our own notes already record that the owner and a YouTube channel disagree about whom the initials honour; the wiki supplies a third, more specific account, and an authored specialist reference gives the same one independently — the clone was put into circulation in memory of a member of the same growers' board, who had died.Reported, but not confirmed.Two sources agreeing is not a ruling, and this page does not treat it as one: what the yard's own catalogue says about the name is the owner's to settle. Contributors raise concerns about mislabelled cuts circulating, and a separate thread about Pumacayan-collected material runs alongside the clone's own history.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.