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No source in this library records a cross for TBMC. 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
A California nursery that grows it reaches the same conclusion and is equally careful about it: many growers, it says, take the crest to be a cresting form of the monstrose type B, on the evidence that the offsets it throws come out short.
Where the name comes from
One account says the crest appeared as a sport on a type-B plant and was over and over until there were enough of it to release.
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.
Growth habit
Crested growth looks brain-like and can start at the base or at the tip. Every crest grows differently, so no two plants match.
What the sources say
"TBMC" is used for two different things — the crested plant, and a separate C — so the abbreviation on a label does not tell you which you are getting.
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.
