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This carries two names for one reason: the street the mother stand grows on is called Texas, but the plant was actually brought to California from Arizona, so the second name corrects the first. It is a that throws sections with smooth, rib-free sides and tips where the ribs wander. The wiki page is clear that this is not the plant sold as Texas torch.Reported, but not confirmed.
monstrose sections
rib-shifting tips
smooth sides
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 9 things this page says, 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 Texas ('Tex the Zoni'). 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
By their own account that collector had moved to California from Arizona and missed the cacti of home, so a friend brought this plant over as a keepsake.Reported, but not confirmed.
The nickname Texas comes from the street the stand grows on, while the second name records that the plant itself was carried over from Arizona.Reported, but not confirmed.
The original stand is still growing in San Diego and is still looked after by its owner.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The wiki page's author was given the in person, several years before writing, by a cactus collector in San Diego.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.
Growth habit
It produces monstrose sections with smooth, rib-free sides, and tips where the ribs shift oddly.Reported, but not confirmed.
What the sources say
The wiki page warns against confusing this clone with Texas torch.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.The community wiki separately holds a 'Texas Street' page describing a Lumberjack-lookalike with no recorded origin, so more than one plant circulates under a Texas-based name. Our own notes record the same Arizona-origin story under a blended nickname, cited to a YouTube channel rather than to the wiki page.Reported, but not confirmed.
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.
