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SSAWSS is a bridgesii-by-pachanoi bred in New York around 2014 from an SS02 mother and grown on in full sun in the Inland Empire ever since. Its signature is the edge: a blocky five-rib column with pronounced saw-tooth ridges and deep notches, over blue with golden spines. The father is not named, so half the parentage is on record only through the traits it is credited with.Reported, but not confirmed.
saw-tooth ribs
five ribs
blue skin
golden spines
deep notches
HybridCross: A seed-grown plant from two named parents, written mother × father.
Of the 10 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on, 4 name who reports them 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 spells the mother 'SSO2', which matches the widely circulated SS02. The father is never named, though the wiki page credits it with the blocky five-rib shape.Reported, but not confirmed.
The longer version
Species, as our sources record it: x .
Lost n Spaces ordered and raised the seed and has grown the plant in full sun in the Inland Empire for about ten years since.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The cross was bred in New York by WSS around 2014.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.
Skin
Blue and glaucous, taken from the mother.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A blue, glaucous epidermis is ordinary in the genus, and a cutting keeps the mother's colouring.
Ribs
A blocky five-rib profile inherited from the father, with strongly exaggerated saw-tooth edges and deep notches.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Spines
Golden.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Golden spination is common in the genus and nothing here is out of range.
Growth habit
Fat and heavily built.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Thick, heavily built columns are well within the normal build for these plants.
What the sources say
The mother is written 'SSO2' with a letter O; we treat that as the SS02 but record the wiki page's spelling.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
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.
