| Description | This is a weird but lovable, easy to grow plant forming a single spiny stem with a fluted base. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Succulents |
| Hardiness Zone | 10 |
| Sunlight | full sun, bright |
| Moisture | Allowing the plant to get totally dry to many times will result in dropping of leaves. Prefers to be kept slightly dry. |
| Growing Media | well drained |
| Temperature | average house-warm |
| Flowers | small funnel-like and white. After growing this plant for many years I have yet to see it flower. I need to revise this statement I finally have a blooming plant. (See photos) |
| Leaves | strap-like located on the top of the plant creating a palm-like appearance. |
| Stems | single stem, may branch at the base with age, wrapped with a continuous mass of spines |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Native Site | South and Southwestern Madagascar |
| Author's Notes | I have found this plant easy to grow in a warm bright window. Grown in a bight window in the winter outdoors in the sun in the summer. |
| Notes & Reference | #05-Lexicon of Succulent Plants (Hermann Jacobsen), #99-The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Succulent Plants (Gordon Rowley) |
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