Pachypodium ambongense

Pachypodium ambongensePachypodium Ambongense One of the rarest and largest species of Pachypodium. It can reach 20 feet tall or more in the wild. In pots you can keep it around 3 5 feet tall. Not difficult to grow. Can survive temperatures down to freezing, but prefers it a bit warmer in winter if possible (that is true for all Pachypodiums). Likes water during the growing season as long as it is in well drained soil. Should be kept fairly dry in the winter, especially

You will receive the plant shown in the images

just slower

Produces lots of pink to magenta flowers in the warmer months

The plant makes attractive maroon to black flowers when actively growing

The plant can become a small tree in the wild

Lobivia arachnacantha  Also called Echinopsis arachnacantha

The leaves are green

It can go from the plants for sale to fully filling out a 6" pot in 2 years

This is part of the same group of leafy succulent Euphorbias as E

Similar care to the leafy Madagascar species

High light and water stress usually increases the pink color

Note that these plants are currently dormant