Native: Southern and southwestern Madagascar.

Become a small succulent tree with mostly upright stems. Sometimes it branches, spiny. also corrugated tube-like. The leaves, green small oval shape that bud right off the trunk. It covers the stems during the warm wet season, but will often drop during any lengthy dry periods or cold weather. Mainly in winter. It needs full sun or high interior lighting with a very well-drained soil mix and freely circulating air. Plants are watered and allowed to dry thoroughly before watering again.

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