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Tiburon seal. Long spines.

Bridgesii

Tiburon

One grower records Tiburon as a fat named for the Spanish word for shark, with spines to about ten centimeters.

BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

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Character

  • nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans toward heavily spined, read from the spines line below.
Spines
Reportedly up to about 10 cm.
Growth habit
Reportedly fat.
Drawing of a bridgesii-type column: slim, with few ribs, areoles set widely apart and long needle spines.
A Bridgesii column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

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