The shop is closed just now.The shop is not open for orders yet. Everything here is real and grown in my own yard — have a look around — but I am not taking money until the last few things are in place.Ask about a plant
Sherman seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
Sherman
Name only
Sherman is registered as a and described no further. There is no record of who found or named it, where the grows, or how the differs from any other bridgesii. The name exists; the documentation does not.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, 4 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for Sherman. 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
A Californian nursery says the plant comes from a cactus garden of the same name and sells it under two further labels, SCG1 and CA1.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The same listing says the plant is similar to but probably not the same as Lumberjack — recorded here as that seller's own hedge, because a probably is not a finding either way.Reported, but not confirmed.
What the record holds
The community wiki gives the species and nothing else.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.
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
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
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.
