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Pala Rez seal. monstrose growth.

Bridgesii

Pala Rez

Partially documented

PALA REZ is a that does not grow to a plan: it changes count part-way up, misses out, goes and ends its columns in odd-looking tips. Its name came off a radio station billboard about a decade ago, and the original stand it was cut from is gone. The entry is written first-hand by the grower who named it, so the naming account is direct rather than second-hand.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • rib shifting
  • skipped areoles
  • monstrose growth
  • odd tips

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

Of the 11 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 9 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

Trichocereus bridgesii

syn. Echinopsis lageniformis

Filed under Bridgesii

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

The name was given roughly ten years before the wiki page was written.

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 Pala Rez. 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

Named after a local radio station sign.Reported, but not confirmed.

It was taken from a billboard advertising a radio station, reading PALA REZ RADIO.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The mother stand the came from no longer exists.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The entry was written by the grower posting as imdavesbud and carries no bot-compiled banner.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The name was given roughly ten years before the wiki page was written.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

Ribs
The plant shifts its rib count as it grows.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Rib counts commonly change with age and growing conditions in these columnar cacti.
Spines
Named among the whose thin spines detach easily.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
It turns monstrose and finishes its columns with strange-looking tips.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
areoles: it skips areoles.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Irregular or missing areoles along a rib do occur in this genus and are consistent with variable growth.

What the sources say

Our own notes record the Pala Rez name as coming from a local radio station sign, and records Pala as a separate name taken from a town printed on a shipping address; the wiki page attributes this name specifically to a billboard reading PALA REZ RADIO. The accounts fit together but differ in detail, and Pala and Pala Rez should stay separate entries.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.