PACHYPODIUM LAMEREI
Madagascar Palm

 

This popular Pachypodium is grown for its shiny silver trunk covered with thorns.
The leaves form only at the top of the trunk, like a Palm Tree.
However the Madagascar Palm is not really a palm. It is actually a succulent related to Plumerias.
Flowers appear on mature plants grown outside. The flowers are lightly fragrant but they are displayed too high up for you to really enjoy them.
It can be grown indoors if you can provide a very sunny window.
Pachypodiums are great for begginers. Most Pachypodium are very easy to care for. This one is no exception, it requires very little water, even less in the winter when it looses it leaves.

We work with 2 varieties. Pachypodium geayi and Pachypodium lamerei.
They are so similar that most people cannot tell them apart.
The only difference between the two is that P. lamerei has greener, wider leaves and P. geayi has a narrower, gray leaf with red veins.
If one is not available I would recommend trying the other. You will be just as satisfied with the results.

Check out Pachypodium geayi.

 

FAMILY : Apocynaceae
ORIGIN : Madagascar
SIZE : 10'-12'
GROWTH RATE: average
LIGHT REQUIREMENTS : sun/shade
WATER REQUIREMENTS : keep dry in the winter during dormancy
MIN. TEMP. : 35°
FLOWER : summer

 

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