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Sal's Blue seal. Long spines.

Hybrid

Sal's Blue

Also written as Sals Blue, Sal's Blue T. bridgesii/peruvianus hybrid

Sal's Blue is reportedly a leaning toward , taken from a San Diego stand planted in the 1980s and named for the man who kept it.

  • long spines
  • variable look

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

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The longer version

Species: bridgesii-dominant T. bridgesii / hybrid.

That stand is reported to have gone in the ground during the 1980s, so the plants are old growth.

Character

  • nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans toward heavily spined, read from the spines line below.
Spines
Reportedly long, again mainly on sun-grown plants.
Drawing of a cross: one column carrying a rounded, nearly spineless habit on one side and a deeply notched, long-spined one on the other.
A hybrid column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

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