Hoodia flava (Yellow-flowered Ghaap) is a leafless succulent with erect, greyish to brownish green, cylindrical stems with tubercles fused…
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Hoodia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, under the subfamily Asclepiadoideae, native to Southern Africa. They are stem succulents, described as "cactiform" because of their remarkable similarity to the unrelated cactus family. They can reach up to 40 inches (1 m) high and have large flowers, often with a tan color and strong smell. The group was first describe as a genus in 1844.
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Hoodia pilifera is a succulent shrub with erect greyish-green to brown-green stems with tubercles fused below the middle into 20 to 34…
Hoodia currorii is a succulent shrub with cylindrical spiny gray-green stems. The stems are erect, up to 32 inches (80 cm) tall, and up to…
Hoodia gordonii is a many-stemmed succulent shrub with upright cylindrical spiny stems with prominent tubercles tipped with a long sharp…