Pachypodium geayi

Pachypodium geayi

  • Pachypodium geayi
  • Pachypodium geayi
  • Pachypodium geayi
  • Pachypodium geayi
  • Pachypodium geayi
  • Pachypodium geayi
  • Pachypodium geayi
  • Pachypodium geayi
  • Flower name
    Pachypodium geayi
  • Scientific name
    Pachypodium geayi
  • AliasMadagascar palm
  • Place of originMadagascar
  • Place of floweringGreenhouse, Botanical Gardens, Ornamental plants
  • Flowering seasonMarch, April, May

What is Pachypodium geayi

Pachypodium geayi (scientific name:Pachypodium geayi) is endemic to Madagascar, is an Evergreen succulent with high tree of the apocynaceae family. Bark is silvery white wood body spines covered are. At the point of origin growing in arid regions, so wood is spongy and stores water. Crowding the linear leaves at the top of the stem. Thin leaves. Leaves are pink in rib in ash green. There are three needle-like spines at the base of the leaves, leaves remain spines. Spring blooms white plumeria flowers in cymes. Asymmetric flower is a flower, the petals are cylindrical to tip a 5 deep the fissure. On the inside of the flower stamens. Apocynaceae flower so buds are wound in a spiral.

Common name: pachypodium geayi, scientific name:Pachypodium geayi, aka: pachypodium gene Madagascar Palm (Pachypodium geayi) (Madagascar palm), origin: Southwestern Madagascar, environment: arid, life type: Evergreen succulent with high trees, height: 800-1000 cm, coated with a spine in the bark color: silver white. Wood: in the sponge-like, water-friendly, leaf: leaves linear, crowding atop the trunk, leaf quality: thin leaf length: 30 cm leaf width: 2 cm leaf color: gray green pink midrib, asymmetric flower, inflorescences form: cymes, flower diameter: 3-5 cm, flower, white, flowering period: March - May.


  • Order
    Gentianales
  • Family
    Apocynaceae
  • Genus
    Pachypodium
  • Species
    P. geayi
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Cluster inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    High cup-shaped
  • Leaf type
    Linear
  • Edge of the leaf
    Entire
  • Life typeEvergreen Succulent Shrub
  • Flower colorsWhite
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit color
  • Height800.0 ~ 1000.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower3.0 ~ 5.0 cm

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