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Mini-Me seal. 5 ribs.

Bridgesii

Mini-Me

Also written as Mini Me

Mini-Me is reportedly a that refuses to get big.

  • stays small
  • thin columns
  • many pups
  • fast rooting
  • five ribs
  • four-wind columns

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

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus bridgesii

syn. Echinopsis lageniformis

In the yard

Character

  • slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans toward fast grower, read from the growth line below.
Ribs
Five is reportedly the usual count, six turns up now and then, seven hardly ever, and many columns come in the four-rib "four winds" form.
Growth habit
Reportedly, the stays very small and very thin no matter how it is grown. Reportedly, grafted it thickened a little but still never went past about two inches across, and on their own roots in several different spots all settle at roughly one inch. It reportedly grows and roots quickly and does plump up — it simply never puts on the girth an ordinary does. It reportedly branches a lot and throws a great many .
Drawing of a bridgesii-type column: slim, with few ribs, areoles set widely apart and long needle spines.
A Bridgesii column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

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