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Skinny seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Bridgesii

Skinny

Partially documented

Skinny is an Australian whose circulation the community wiki credits to TST Tantra. That is the extent of the record — there is no description of the plant, no naming date and no account of where the original came from. The name itself hints at a slim column, but the wiki page never says so.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • Australian line

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

Of the 3 things this page says, 3 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

Trichocereus bridgesii

syn. Echinopsis lageniformis

Filed under Bridgesii

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

The clone's popularity is credited to TST Tantra in Australia.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Skinny. 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.

Where the name comes from

The 's popularity is credited to TST Tantra in Australia.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.

  • Not documented yet.

  • Not documented yet.

  • 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

The wiki's 'Con' page mentions Skinny in passing as a clone associated with the same Australian forum circles, which is consistent but adds no detail.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Drawing of a bridgesii-type column: slim, with few ribs, areoles set widely apart and long needle spines.
A Bridgesii column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Bridgesii. The better-documented ones come first.

Keep exploring

Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.