Didierea madagascariensis

Octopus tree
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Didiereaceae
Genus: Didierea
Species: D. madagascariensis
Binomial name
Didierea madagascariensis
Baill. (1880)
Synonyms[1]

Didierea mirabilis Baill.

Didierea madagascariensis, commonly known as the Octopus tree,[2] is a species of Didiereaceae endemic to the spiny thickets of southwestern Madagascar.[1]

It was first described scientifically by the French botanist Henri Ernest Baillon in 1880.[3]

The type species of the genus Didierea, it is a densely spiny succulent and can grow up to 10 metres (33 ft) tall.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Couzens, Dominic (2008). Top 100 Birding Sites of the World. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 166. ISBN 0-520-25932-7.
  3. Baillon, Henri Ernest (1880). "Sur le Didierra". Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris (in French): 258–259.
  4. Dixon, R. (1995). "The Didiereaceae of southern Madagascar". Aloe 32 (3/4): 72–73. ISSN 0002-6301.

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