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Drawing of a bridgesii-type column: slim, with few ribs, areoles set widely apart and long needle spines. Named on the drawing: areole, rib, spines.areoleribspines

A drawing of the kind of plant, not of any one plant.

Species

Bridgesii

Also called Bolivian TorchTrichocereus bridgesii

One of the main species in this group, also called Bolivian Torch, with usually four to eight blunt ribs and often long needle-like spines, growers say.

72 names in the library16 grown here

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What to look at

Also written
Lageniformis is a synonym of bridgesii.
Ribs
Reportedly few — four to eight.
Spines
Reportedly frequently long and needle-fine.

Every feature on this page moves with age, sun and water. None of it settles an identity on its own, a clone name is not proof of a species, and a photograph is a pointer rather than an answer.

Growing here

The mother plants this yard cuts from, in this group.

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Names in the library

The seal draws the plant behind the name where the ring can mark it: the ribs, the spines, the growth form. A plain ring has nothing marked on it.

All 72 Bridgesii names

The others

Sources

Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0) and from @sanpedromastery6262 on YouTube.

Every photograph in the yard pages and the shop is of a plant grown here, except where a listing says it was grown by somebody else — it says so on the listing, above the price.

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