The shop is closed just now.The shop is not open for orders yet. Everything here is real and grown in my own yard — have a look around — but I am not taking money until the last few things are in place.Ask about a plant
Trash seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Bridgesii
Trash
Partially documented
Trash is a fast-growing whose name is a joke lifted straight from the sale listing that introduced it. Beyond speed of growth, nothing about the plant is recorded - no locality, no grower, no description. The community wiki also holds a separate called Landfill, and the wiki pages do not say whether the two are connected.Reported, but not confirmed.
fast growing
bridgesii
BridgesiiInformal label: Shorthand or a describing label rather than a cultivar name. It does not promise one specific plant.
Of the 4 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 3 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 Trash. 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
The name comes from a sale listing that offered the plant as rubbish bound for the landfill if nobody bought it.Reported, but not confirmed.
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
slow and steady to fast grower: this one leans towards fast grower, read from the growth line below.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Growth habit
Fast.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Vigorous, fast growth is normal for the genus and nothing contradicts it.
What the sources say
The community wiki lists a separate clone named Landfill, which shares the joke but is not stated to be the same plant.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.
