Succulent ID please

[RichardM]

Hello all,

Have recently acquired the pictured plant and wondered if anyone knew its true identity? Many thanks, Richard

[3bears]

pachypodium succulentum

[RichardM]

Many many thanks, i also have another caudex like succulent in need of a name which ill post tomorrow with luck, Richard

[ralphrmartin]

Pachypodium bispinosum also looks very similar - until they flower, when they have quite different shaped flowers, and it is easy to tell them apart.

[Tony R]

Pachypodium bispinosum also looks very similar - until they flower, when they have quite different shaped flowers, and it is easy to tell them apart.

Indeed, equally difficult to tell apart in habitat, unless in flower, bispinosum having a very distinctive bell shaped flower unlike succulentum. Here are two shots I took just feet apart in the Baviaanskloof in South Africa:

[RichardM]

Much appreciated information on the flowers, hopefully I will get to see them sometime soon...