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OTB Old Town Bridgesii seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
OTB Old Town Bridgesii
Name only
Also written as OTB, Old Town Bridgesii
OTB, written out as Old Town , is registered as a bridgesii associated with one named grower, with two photographs and no text. The name points at a place, as many names do, but the community wiki does not say which town or how the plant was found. There is no description of ribs, spines or growth on file.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 4 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on and 3 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.
No source in this library records a cross for OTB Old Town 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, as stated in the name.
Where the name comes from
The entry consists of the name, two photographs and a single line saying the bridgesii came from Christopher Mills.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.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
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
Our own notes separately record OTLE, standing for Old Town Lake Elsinore; these are different labels and the wiki page does not connect them, so they should not be merged.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.
