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Platform 9¾ Bridgesii seal. Monstrose growth.

Bridgesii

Platform 9¾ Bridgesii

Also written as Platform 9 3/4 Bridgesii

Platform 9¾ is reportedly a melty known for growing very slowly, and for the story of how it was found: on a repossessed mountaintop property whose owner had recently died, reached by a twelve-mile hike in heavy rain, growing in bare granite.

  • melty growth
  • very slow
  • hard grown

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

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Character

  • slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans toward slow and steady, read from the growth line below.
Growth habit
Reportedly a melty bridgesii that is very slow and has been grown hard.
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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