Bridgesii

Dave Reynolds Bridgesii

Well documented

Dave Reynolds is a bridgesii whose grew on a Californian property along the Camino Real and was named for the local man associated with it. The original stand was bulldozed for development, so the exists today only because growers had already taken . The one trait everyone agrees on is that it grows slowly; count, spine colour and glaucousness have never been written down.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

very slow growing
bridgesii form

BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

Of the 14 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 12 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Updated 25 Aug 2026Added 23 Aug 2026

Species

Trichocereus bridgesii

syn. Echinopsis lageniformis

Filed under Bridgesii

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

Named after the man associated with the property where the mother plant grew.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

Not in the yardAsk if you are after one

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Dave Reynolds Bridgesii. 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 mother plant stood in California, on a property beside the Camino Real.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

It was associated with a colourful local figure of that name, which is where the clone's name comes from.Reported, but not confirmed.

The original stand was bulldozed when the land was developed.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Growers had propagated the plant before the stand was destroyed, so the clone survives only through the community.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

It has been used in breeding, including a with the clone SS02.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The wiki's bridgesii identification page uses this clone as one of its archive examples.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The community account places the mother plant on a Californian property beside the Camino Real and ties the name to a local man. The stand was bulldozed for development, and the clone survives through community propagation.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Character

A bar is drawn only where one of the lines below states it — never from the species, never from a photograph.

slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans towards slow and steady, read from the growth line below.
Not documented yet.
Not documented yet.

Growth habit: Reported as notably slow-growing.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Slow growth is well within the range the genus shows.Growers consistently report it as notably slow compared with other bridgesii clones.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Marked variation in vigour between clones is normal, so a notably slow bridgesii is unremarkable.
Notes: Used in hybrid breeding, including a cross with SS02. The wiki page states that rib count, spine colour and how it is have not been documented.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

This is a wiki clone page, and those pages carry a banner saying they were assembled automatically from community discussion and have not been checked by an editor. Read the origin story as what growers say, not as a record.Reported, but not confirmed.The wiki page is the wiki's own example of a bot-compiled, editor-unverified clone page, which is why our own notes treat clone-page detail as single-source at best.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A Bridgesii column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Bridgesii. The better-documented ones come first.

Keep exploring

Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.

Learned from

sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0)

This entry rests on one record. Every fact above traces back to sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0). No second, independent source has confirmed it, so read it as one account rather than as a checked fact. Where we do find a second source we name it here, and the register shows how much of this site rests on each.

Links go to the channel, the subreddit or the front page of a site — never to one video, one post or somebody else’s product page. Nothing above is copied from any of them: every entry is written fresh from a fact list, with the source recorded against each fact as it went in.

Written from scratch off a cited fact list, never copied. Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0), @sanpedromastery6262 and @IMDAVESBUD on YouTube, r/sanpedrocactus and medicactus.com's buyer guides, then checked against university extension horticulture, botanical gardens, cactus and succulent societies and the published botanical record. I will not name a plant from a photograph.

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