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

Name only

Half Dead Bridgesii

Name only

Half Dead is a name in circulation that the community wiki has not been able to document. Its page says outright that the origin, breeder and history are unverified, and records no count, spine length or colour for the plant. The discussion filed under it is really about other bridgesii lines, so treat this as a label waiting for a description.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

BridgesiiInformal label: Shorthand or a describing label rather than a cultivar name. It does not promise one specific plant.

Of the 8 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 7 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

Not recorded

No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.

Filed under Bridgesii

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

No record found

We have read the sources we hold and none of them says where this plant came from.

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 Half Dead 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

Species, as our sources record it: bridgesii (syn. lageniformis) — the wiki page gives only the general species description, not this 's.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

The discussion filed beneath the entry is about other bridgesii lines rather than this one.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Recorded there about a different clone: Cactus Kate bridgesii traces to Cactus Kate, who ran Desert Theatre Nursery in Watsonville, California, with her husband Jay Jackson; after they separated Jackson ran a nursery in Escondido that was later sold to Brandon Bullard, and the plants only became widely known after Kate's death, when Verne Robinson acquired and spread them.Reported, but not confirmed.

Recorded there about a different clone: Jaysus is credited to Jay Webber in Arizona.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Recorded there about a different clone: Leopard is a seedling raised by Tanner Ochowicz from a Cactilicious Sausage x Dawsons Knuth , with a separate non-variegated Green Leopard linked to Mallacht's Plants.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the record holds

The community wiki states plainly that no verified origin, breeder or history exists for this name.Reported, but not confirmed.

Character

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

  • Not documented yet.

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Nobody has described the skin, the ribs or the spines of this one anywhere we could cite, so there is nothing here to draw or to list.

What the sources say

The same page cannot settle whether Cactus Kate bridgesii is one clone or a group of different bridgesii plants she grew.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.