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TCP Bridge seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Bridgesii
TCP Bridge
Partially documented
TCP Bridge is less a name than a holding label: TCP stands for Cactus Plant, a catch-all one grower coined for new finds, lost labels and unidentified plants. This particular is described by comparison - ribs and colour close to SS02, wilder and reminiscent of OTB crossed with Psycho0, with an overall cast like the La Paz forms. It roots and grows normally, including when a section is laid down flat to along its length.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
SS02-like ribs
wild spination
La Paz look
log-plants well
BridgesiiInformal label: Shorthand or a describing label rather than a cultivar name. It does not promise one specific plant.
Of the 10 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 9 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 TCP Bridge. 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
Growers use it for new finds, plants whose labels are lost, unknown hybrids and NOIDs, so TCP Bridge simply means a bridgesii of that kind.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
This plant has been distributed by Lawrence Smith and propagated by growers including Dicky Vee and Chris Cosby.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
TCP is short for Trichocereus Cactus Plant, a placeholder the grower Cal Cactuz is credited with coining.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.
Ribs
Ribs and : close to the SS02.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Spines
Wilder than SS02's, described as somewhere between OTB and Psycho0, with a hint of Cochabamba plants.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit
It has been grown both as an upright column and by log planting, laying a mid-section flat so it pushes offsets along its length.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Laying a mid-section flat to force offsets along its length is a normal way to grow these; both habits are possible.
Notes
The overall look is placed near the La Paz regional forms.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
Because TCP is a placeholder used for many plants, the name does not identify a single clone; the description here applies to one specimen circulating under it.Reported, but not confirmed.The wiki page is bot-compiled and unverified.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.
