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Pachypodium horombense

Madagascan pachycaul. Yellow bell-shaped flowers on 80cm long stems when mature. Water once or twice (lightly) in winter when dormant, more frequently in summer when growing. Pot subject, best grown hard, bright and slow.

5.Indoors OK, Outdoors not OK.

Coming into leaf in spring.
The campanulate (bell-shaped) flower is diagnostic.
Tall peduncles offer the flowers to cruising moths.
Big old specimen.
Big old plant ramifying nicely.
Usually silver skinned, sometimes though, it is red skinned.
23yo plant.

Pachypodium horombense

Madagascan pachycaul. Yellow bell-shaped flowers on 80cm long stems when mature. Water once or twice (lightly) in winter when dormant, more frequently in summer when growing. Pot subject, best grown hard, bright and slow.

5.Indoors OK, Outdoors not OK.

Coming into leaf in spring.
The campanulate (bell-shaped) flower is diagnostic.
Tall peduncles offer the flowers to cruising moths.
Big old specimen.
Big old plant ramifying nicely.
Usually silver skinned, sometimes though, it is red skinned.
23yo plant.