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Pachypodium namaquanum
... Voigt and Olivia Pekeur Kirstenbosch NBG June 2007 Pachypodium namaquanum, the halfmens (half plant, half ... year, and can attain an age of one hundred years or more. Pachypodium namaquanum is found in dry rocky deserts at ... Namibia are among the places of distribution. The genus Pachypodium belongs to the Apocynaceae (oleander) family, ...
Pachypodium
... 1830, at the time on the basis of a single species. Today Pachypodium consists of about 20 species; five are native to ... even small rodents may also aid in the dispersal. Seeds of Pachypodium namaquanum in the wild are heavily parasitized, ... possibly adding to the alleged rarity of the species. Pachypodium densiflorum var. densiflorum is said to grow in ...
Pachypodium succulentum
... Notten Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden January 2019 Pachypodium succulentum is a dwarf shrub, which grows 0.6 to ... pods, the seed with a tuft of whitish hairs at one end. Pachypodium succulentum is endemic to South Africa. It occurs ... Cape and western Free State, at altitudes up to 1 400 m. Pachypodium succulentum grows in hot, sunny, rocky places and ...
Pachypodium bispinosum
... Potgieter and Andrew Hankey for assisting with pictures. Pachypodium bispinosum is a shrublet that can reach up to ... August to December). This species may be confused with Pachypodium succulentum when not in flower, but they are ... curling down more distinctly and it has shorter spines. Pachypodium bispinosum is mostly found in the Eastern Cape ...
Pachypodium saundersii
... Geoff Nichols, Richard Gill and Alice Notten, as credited. Pachypodium saundersii is a succulent shrub growing 0.5 to ... Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The thick succulent stem of Pachypodium saundersii stores water and enables the plant to ... the seeds to be lifted and carried away by gusts of wind. Pachypodium Pachypodium saundersii is best propagated from ...