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Shift seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Hybrid
Shift
Partially documented
Shift is a scopulicola-by-bridgesii from Romania with a melty, soft-ribbed look. That single line is the whole record: the individual parent plants are unnamed, the breeder is not credited, and no , spine or flower detail exists. The smoothness is the sort of thing is known for passing to its offspring.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
melty growth
scop cross
Romanian breeding
HybridCross: A seed-grown plant from two named parents, written mother × father.
Of the 7 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on, 1 names who reports it and 5 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.
Every ring is that plant’s own seal, in its family’s colour — open one to keep going.
Each plant wears its own seal here, coloured by its family — so a cross shows which side brought what before you read a name. A dashed ring is a plant with no page here yet, and a wire is only ever drawn from a parent somebody wrote down. Children are worked out from the other entries rather than stored on this one, so recording a cross anywhere lights it up on both plants.
The line matters as much as the box. A dashed line is a cross we can report but cannot confirm. Every cross drawn here is at that weakest reading, which is the true state of this plant's record.
Drawn 3 generations each way. Everything our sources record for this plant is in the drawing; the family stops there, not the tree.
The wiki page writes the cross only as 'scop x bridge'. It names no individual parent and does not confirm which side carried the seed, so the mother-first reading is a convention rather than a stated fact.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The longer version
Species, as our sources record it: scopulicola x cross.
A California nursery that propagates it gives the same origin independently — a scopulicola-by-bridgesii that came from Romania — and adds the route: a grower named Nathan T imported it, and the nursery has been growing it on for several years.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The same nursery describes it as highly variable, throwing very different rib shapes on one plant while keeping a thick, leathery .Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The cross was made in Romania.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.
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.
Growth habit
Described as melty, the soft-edged look growers associate with scopulicola parentage.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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 hybrid 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, Hybrid. The better-documented ones come first.
