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Sugar Magnolia seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Bridgesii
Sugar Magnolia
Partially documented
Also written as T. bridgesii cv. Sugar Magnolia
Sugar Magnolia is a selected by the collector GeeBee from a small batch of seedlings she received in 2014. The is clear and first-hand; the plant itself is not described anywhere on the wiki page, which falls back on what bridgesii look like in general. The seed grower's full identity is a guess the wiki page itself flags as unconfirmed.Reported, but not confirmed.
2014 seedling
bridgesii type
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 6 things this page says, 6 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 Sugar Magnolia. 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
The wiki page guesses, without confirming, that Richo is the seed grower Richo Cech.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
It reads the name, and the community talk around it, as a nod to the Grateful Dead.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The collector GeeBee obtained a few seedlings from a grower she calls Richo in 2014 and later selected and named this one.Reported, but not confirmed.
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.
Notes
The wiki page records no measured traits for this and substitutes the general bridgesii picture: a shrubby habit, light green to blue-green , four to eight ribs and honey-to-brown spines.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
The wiki page is bot-compiled and unverified, and it marks the identification of the seed source as presumed rather than established.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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.
