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Walt's Melty Bridgesii seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
Walt's Melty Bridgesii
Name only
Walt's Melty is filed by the community's identification page as a bridgesii — it is one of the that page uses as an example of the species — and the middle word points at the run-together, half-collapsed growth collectors call melty. That is where the record stops. Who Walt is, where the plant came from, and whether the melty growth survives being cut and rooted are all unwritten, and the last of those is the question that decides whether a name like this marks a clone or a phase.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 4 things this page says, 4 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 Walt's Melty Bridgesii. 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 wiki's bridgesii identification page lists Walt's Melty Bridgesii among the community-submitted clones it uses as examples of the species.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.
Nobody has described the skin, the ribs or the spines of this one anywhere we could cite, so there is nothing here to draw or to list.
What the sources say
Walt's Dragon is a separate, better-documented name from the same grower.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Whether the melty habit holds through propagation is not recorded anywhere we can check; that is our observation about the gap, not a claim from any source.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.
