Indigo

This small caudiciform grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall. The finger-like stem is gray, and is covered in thick bunches of flexible lime spines. The twisting, florescent green trunk can grow to as much as 1 foot (30.5 cm) in diameter at the bottom. Its orange-yellow branches are short and thin and start growing three quarters of the way up the stem.

The sparse amounts of toothed-edged, thin leaves are either indigo or bronze, with lilac dots. They are flimsy, but take some effort to detach.

It is slow growing, taking 34 years to reach maturity. Once mature, and only under the right conditions, a handful of flowers, with petals that are either peach or drab red, with a yellow center, grow at the top, reappearing after 2 years, but only when the conditions are right again. The flower head is shaped like a trumpet made up of many raised, round-tipped petals. It has an overpowering scent that smells like honeysuckle.

The caudiciform's skin is delicate, the caramel flesh is leathery, and the pink sap is thin.