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Kate's Bridge seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Bridgesii
Kate's Bridge
Grown herePartially documented
Also written as Kate, Kate's, Kate's Bridge (Melty)
A in this yard known for going melted and strange.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Melted, irregular monstrose growth is a well-known habit in bridgesii.
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 3 things this page says, 3 name who reports them. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for Kate's Bridge. 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.
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
Known to turn melty and irregular.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Irregular, melted growth forms are ordinary variation for these plants.
What the sources say
No source outside this yard records the name, so the description above is the owner's own.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Our own plant, in the yard. 6 pictures of it on its collection page.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Bridgesii. The better-documented ones come first.
