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Wowie Bridgesii seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
Wowie Bridgesii
Name only
Also written as Wowie
Wowie is registered with photographs and no written content. The title tells you it is a bridgesii; everything else - who found it, where, and what distinguishes it - is missing. We will not describe a plant from pictures, so the entry stays at the name.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 5 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on, 1 names who reports it and 3 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
· Added 23 Aug 2026
At a glance
Species
Not recorded
No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.
No source in this library records a cross for Wowie 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.
The longer version
Species, as our sources record it: bridgesii, from the wiki page title.
The wiki page carries photographs and no text, so nothing is written down about this name anywhere except one Californian nursery's listing, which records that it holds the plant and names the grower it came from.Reported, but not confirmed.That establishes the name is in commercial circulation with a traceable supplier, and it describes nothing.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.
What the record holds
The wiki page carries photographs and no text at all - no origin, grower or description.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
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
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.
