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Short, fat, heavily spined with a tight wheel of spines at the crown.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Short fat stems with heavy spination and a crowded crown areole cluster are ordinary bridgesii-type variation.
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 name who reports them. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for Silver Dollar Bridge. 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.
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
nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans strongly towards heavily spined, read from the spines line below.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Spines
Heavy, in a tight radial pattern at the crown.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Growth habit
Short and fat rather than tall.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Squat, thick-bodied growth habits occur widely across Trichocereus; nothing implausible here.
What the sources say
No source outside this yard records the name.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Our own plant, in the yard. 4 pictures of it on its collection page.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Bridgesii. The better-documented ones come first.
