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White Owl is a Californian with a distinctive look: slim, squared-off columns, long thin white spines, and a chalky silver bloom over the . The community wiki names the person credited with founding the and the state it was found in. Nothing further - no date, no locality, no count - is recorded, and the wiki page's 'similar to' field was left blank.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
squared columns
long white spines
chalky silver skin
BridgesiiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 6 things this page says, 2 name who reports them and 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 White Owl. 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
the community wiki records California as the place the plant was found and credits Heru Khenum Amen as its founder.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The wiki records California as the place the plant was found and credits Heru Khenum Amen as its founder.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
nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans towards heavily spined, read from the spines line below.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Skin
Silvery, chalky and .One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A chalky silvery bloom is a normal expression of glaucousness in these plants.
Spines
Long, thin and white.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Long, thin, white spines are well within the normal range for the genus.
Growth habit
Thinner columns with a squared-off cross-section.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
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.
