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A piece of the long form that has gone back to growing like an ordinary ribbed column.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Reversion to ribbed columnar growth, faster growth, and later relapse into monstrose are all documented behaviours of such plants.
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 5 things this page says, 4 name who reports them and 1 is 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 TBMA Revert. 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
slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans towards fast grower, read from the growth line below.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Growth habit
Reverted growth runs faster than the monstrose form, and can turn strange again later in the same plant.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Reversion to ribbed columnar growth, faster growth, and later relapse into monstrose are all documented behaviours of such plants.The owner's piece is partly rooted and grows with a shifting, unpredictable habit.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
Flowers
A reverted has been seen to flower where the monstrose forms had not.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Reverted normal growth flowering where deranged growth does not is expected, since monstrose tissue rarely makes flowers.
What the sources say
Young dragon-type are often called when they are only showing their juvenile growth, so the label is worth treating carefully.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Our own plant, in the yard. 6 pictures of it on its collection page.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Bridgesii. The better-documented ones come first.
