Bridgesii

T. bridgesii 'Con'

Partially documented

Also written as Con, Bridgesii Con, Trichocereus bridgesii 'Con'

Con is an Australian bought by the nursery Shaman Australis from a local grower who had raised it from seed, and named by the nursery's founder. It became a staple of collections there and abroad. What it looks like is not on record: the wiki page has no , spine or measurements for the , only the general bridgesii picture and a warning that the species can spot in damp winters.Reported, but not confirmed.

Australian staple
bridgesii type

BridgesiiNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.

Of the 13 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 10 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Updated 25 Aug 2026Added 23 Aug 2026

Species

Trichocereus bridgesii

syn. Echinopsis lageniformis

Filed under Bridgesii

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

Torsten, founder of Shaman Australis Botanicals (SAB)

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

In the yard

Not in the yardAsk if you are after one

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for T. bridgesii 'Con'. 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

Con is an Australian clone associated with the nursery Shaman Australis Botanicals.Reported, but not confirmed.

By the community account, SAB bought the plant from a local grower who had raised it from seed, and the nursery's founder named it.Reported, but not confirmed.

It has since become a staple in Australian and international collections.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The wiki page points readers to an Instagram account for further detail, which it does not itself verify.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

The community account says the business bought it from a local grower who had raised it from seed, and that their founder named it.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.

Not documented yet.
Not documented yet.
Not documented yet.

Notes: Bridgesii generally is noted as sensitive to humidity-related black spotting.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Cool damp conditions with poor airflow reliably provoke black spotting in this group.The wiki page records no rib count, spine length or skin colour for this clone and falls back on the general bridgesii description.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Health: it notes that bridgesii in general can mark with black spots when winter air is damp.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Damp, still winter air does bring on black spotting on these cacti.

What the sources say

Our own notes carry the same origin story at moderate confidence, so the two records agree.Reported, but not confirmed.The wiki page is bot-compiled and unverified, and its source discussion drifts onto unrelated clones. A separate wiki page, clones:t:trichocereus_bridgesii_con, carries the documented 'Con' bridgesii while this one is empty; whether they are the same plant is not stated.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.A second wiki heading for this name exists under C with no content on it; whether it was meant for this clone is not stated anywhere.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

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.

Learned from

sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Our own reading of the facts above, not a claim any source makes

This entry rests on one record. Every fact above traces back to sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0). No second, independent source has confirmed it, so read it as one account rather than as a checked fact. Where we do find a second source we name it here, and the register shows how much of this site rests on each.

Links go to the channel, the subreddit or the front page of a site — never to one video, one post or somebody else’s product page. Nothing above is copied from any of them: every entry is written fresh from a fact list, with the source recorded against each fact as it went in.

Written from scratch off a cited fact list, never copied. Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0), @sanpedromastery6262 and @IMDAVESBUD on YouTube, r/sanpedrocactus and medicactus.com's buyer guides, then checked against university extension horticulture, botanical gardens, cactus and succulent societies and the published botanical record. I will not name a plant from a photograph.

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