Monadenium spectabile

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Monadenium spectabile is a summer succulent shrub. The flowers are remarkably spectacular, small, dark-pink. It makes an incredibly ornamental potted plant and highly attractive to collectors. Leaves: Stalk-less, somewhat fleshy, obovate, to 33 x 23 cm, apex rounded, margin entire or with a few small teeth towards the base, midrib keeled with scattered spines on the lower surface; basal leaves and those of young plants hairy on both surfaces, upper leaves completely hairless; leaf-scars to 1 cm wide.Flowers: Cyathia up to 6mm long and approximately 4 mm wide Some of the information in this description has been found at desert-tropicals.com, llifle.com and cactus-art.biz Show more