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Chorisia speciosa

Brazilian pachycaul with fat green trunks covered, to a variable degree, in crazily conical spines. Flowers speckledy pink, varied, and attractive. Leafless in winter. Can take a mild frost (or more once established and gaining height).

2.Indoors OK, Outdoors OK, easy to grow.

Funky trunky.
Beautiful flowers (in Auckland Botanic Gardens).
Fruits hang like dead rats in Avondale.
Funky trunky.
Beautiful flowers (in Auckland Botanic Gardens).
Fruits hang like dead rats in Avondale.