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Tiburon seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Bridgesii
Tiburon
Partially documented
A fat named for the Spanish word for shark, with spines to about ten centimetres.Reported, but not confirmed.
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 4 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 2 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 Tiburon. 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.
Where the name comes from
Named for the Spanish word for shark.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.
Spines
Up to about 10 cm.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. The figure sits comfortably within the range this genus shows; nothing about it is implausible.
Growth habit
Fat.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A thick-stemmed form is entirely ordinary in this genus; the description is plausible as stated.
What the sources say
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
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.
