Pachypodium eburnium - Madagascan Palm - Rare African Succulent - 5 Seeds

Pachypodium is a genus of succulent spine-bearing trees and shrubs, native to Africa. It belongs to the dogbane family, Apocynaceae.

Pachypodium eburneum comes from a tiny isolated area in the Mount Ibity region in central Madagascar. Pachypodium eburneum grows in sub humid woodlands and on inselbergs or rock faces on quartzitic rocks. This species can be found with these associated species: Pachypodium brevicaule, Pachypodium densiflorum, Uapaca bojeri, Aloe capitata and Sarcolaena oblongifolia. It is a small growing caudiciform plant that looks somewhat like Pachypodium densiflorum but with much heavier spination and more blunt leaves. Seedlings grow fairly slowly, and mature specimens are fairly compact up to 25 cm in diameter and the whole plant barely 25-30 cm tall. Its name alludes to the large showy ivory coloured flowers which do not revert to yellow in cultivation.

USDA Zone - 9

Season to Sow - Spring