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This plant is a spiny succulent shrub, with thick water-storing stems and leaves that are deciduous in the long dry season. Although strikingly similar in appearance.
Young alluaudias form a tangle of stems that last for several years, after which a strong central stem develops. The basal stems then die out, leaving a tree-like stem that branches higher up on the main trunk.
Like other members of family Didiereaceae, the leaves of Alluaudia, produced from brachyblasts similar to the areoles found in cacti, are small, appear single and are accompanied with conical spines. Its flowers are unisexual and radially symmetric.
Alluaudia procera is an unusual perennial, succulent, columnar plant with vertical stems. Each is covered with pairs of small rounded leaves and sharp gray spines arranged in channels along the plant’s stems.
Shipped bare root.