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DDD seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Bridgesii

DDD

Well documented

DDD is a mutant form that appeared on a mature short-form TBM-b stand in Southern California and was isolated over two years by the grower behind the imdavesbud name. Its keeper reports it has never back to ordinary TBM-b from any slab, tip, butt or , which is the basis for treating it as a stable mutation with its own name. It grows taller and more columnar than the short form, terminates wide and blocky without the smooth indentation, and pups from its sides. Every claim here comes from the person who isolated and named it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • stable mutation
  • blocky termination
  • side pupping
  • light green skin

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

Of the 14 things this page says, 5 name who reports them and 9 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Added 23 Aug 2026

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus bridgesii

syn. Echinopsis lageniformis

Filed under Bridgesii

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

David Taylor, the grower who isolated it.

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

In the yard

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Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a confirmed cross for DDD, and no other entry here names it as a parent. What the record does hold is below.

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.

Not a . The wiki page states it arose on a mature TBM-b short form stand and carries the same DNA as TBM-b, differing only in how it grows.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: a mutant of TBM-b, tagged on the wiki page as and .Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

Taylor worked on grafting and isolating it over two years before treating it as stable.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

It first appeared on a big, mature stand of the TBM-b short form.Reported, but not confirmed.

The wiki page was written by that same grower.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The phenotype was isolated in Southern California by the grower behind the imdavesbud name, David Taylor, and grown in full sun.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.

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  • Not documented yet.

Skin
Light green, and liable to black spots if poked, exactly as TBM-b is.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Light green skin that bruises to black spots where damaged is ordinary for the genus, and the comparison is a plain morphological one.
Ribs
It forms a mouth-shaped tip rather than the smooth tip indentation of the short form.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Mouth-like or puckered tips are a common expression of monstrose growth and differ between forms.
Spines
Similar overall growth to Bruce's Dragon, but the spines differ clearly in size, shape and colour.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Two clones sharing a growth habit while differing in spine size, shape and colour is entirely normal variation.
Growth habit
Monstrous growth with notches and irregular patterns, taller and more columnar than the short form, terminating wide and blocky with no indentation and pupping from the sides.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Taller, blocky, side-pupping monstrose growth with irregular ribs is well within the range monstrose Trichocereus show.
Notes
Stability: every slab, tip, butt graft and areole is reported to have pupped true to the mutant form, never reverting to ordinary TBM-b.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The wiki page is a first-party account by the grower who isolated, named and distributes the plant; the stability claim has no independent corroboration in our sources.Reported, but not confirmed.The account explicitly argues the plant is neither the long form nor ETBM, which implies others have made that comparison.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Drawing of a bridgesii-type column: slim, with few ribs, areoles set widely apart and long needle spines.
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.

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