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Eric's Melted Wax seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Bridgesii
Eric's Melted Wax
Partially documented
Erics Melted Wax is recorded in the community wiki as a melty , and that one line is the whole entry. Our other sources add that the name attaches a person to a melted-wax type plant so it can be told apart from similar . Nothing has been recorded about ribs, spines, colour or how it was found.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
melty growth
bridgesii form
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 6 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 5 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 Eric's Melted Wax. 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 wiki entry is a single line identifying it as a melty bridgesii.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
Renamed after the grower it was received from, specifically to distinguish it from other melted-wax plants.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 steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Growth habit
Melty, in the melted-wax style the name describes.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Soft, rounded rib and areole contours giving a melted look occur in the genus.
What the sources say
An example of naming etiquette working properly: rather than overwriting a circulating name, the grower added a distinguishing one.Reported, but not confirmed.Our own notes record, from a YouTube grower, that the plant was renamed after the person it came from in order to distinguish it from other melted-wax clones; the wiki page says nothing about the naming.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.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Bridgesii. The better-documented ones come first.
