Ideal False Ocotillo Plant
Ocotillo Fouquieriaceae Hardy to Zones 10 to 12 otherwise grown as a potted plant and brought indoors for the winter Candlewood CouchwhipSturdy whiplike woody spiny shrub to 20 feet native to the deserts of the American SW Baha and Mexico.
False ocotillo plant. It is both fire and deer resistant. Alluaudia procera or Madagascar ocotillo is a deciduous succulent plant species of the family Didiereaceae. If you buy an ocotillo in Arizona the desert plant is tagged with an Arizona native plant tag verifying you legally acquired it.
Gardeners love ocotillo for its beauty and resiliency and hummingbirds are drawn by. Native to the American Southwest ocotillo is a distinctive desert plant marked by graceful thorny wand-like branches that extend upward from the base of the plant. Ocotillo Fouquieria splendens is not a real cactus but a desert bush that grows true leaves.
They are typically leafless most of the year but will produce many leaves after a significant precipitation. This plant can be propagated from stem cuttings and seed. It is often called the ocotillo cactus but it is not truly a cactus although it grows in similar conditions.
The plant is native to the Sonoron and Chihuahuan deserts. One of the most amazing of the many unique and unusual plants found in our Sonoran Desert is the ocotillo. Alluaudia procera are succulent plants that need full-sun or high inside lighting with a very well drained soil mix and freely circulating air.
In the spring they are topped with bright orangish-red flowers. Cactus False Ocotillo ROOTED Tall Alluaudia procera Various sizes Sent Bare Root Unique Old World Madagascar cactus UrbanCottageCo 5 out of 5 stars 2198. Alluaudia procera Madagascan Ocotillo - An unusual upright succulent shrub with paired 12 inch long rounded succulent leaves and grey spines that sprout up along the mostly unbranched and mostly upright.
It has a similar form to Ocotillo and works well as a specimen Plant in larger xeriscape plantings rock and cactus gardens. They have low-branching leafy canes and can grow to 15 tall and wide. In the dry season the ocotillo Fouquieria splendens with its bundles of gray.