Pachypodium succulentum

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Pachypodium succulentum is a member of the Apocynaceae family native to South Africa’s Cape Provinces and Free State provinces. It’s a slow-growing caudiciform succulent shrublet with a broad half-submerged tuberous base that bears numerous slender branches with slender acute stipular spines below the leaves.
Pachypodium succulentum (Succulent Pachypodium) The crimson, pink, or white blooms that appear with the leaves have a darker midstripe. The plant can reach a height of 60-200 cm. The stem bears several twisting, usually erect slender branches, simple or sparingly branched, usually about 15-60 cm long, 6-20 mm in diameter, rising about 15 cm above the ground, that form a basal turnip-shaped and succulent caudex 20-50 cm long, 10-15(-25) cm in diameter, rising about 15 cm above the ground. Pachypodium succulentum online USA

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There are a few easy-to-avoid spines at the bottom and tapering gradually.

The robust water-holding swallowed-stem base of Pachypodium succulentum distinguishes it.  The short, dark green, lanceolate leaves with venation are located on the upper sections of the stalks. Pink or white flowers are used.

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