Hazel Succulent

This small leaf succulent grows up to 3 feet (91.4 cm) tall. The needle-like stem is hazel or olive, and is covered in sharp spines. The knobbly leaves are dark brown with subtle yellow tips. Sparse amounts of them grow on thin, pink-red branches that are short and thin. The leaves are resilient, but detach easily.

It is very slow growing, taking 27 years to reach maturity. Once mature, and only under the right conditions, a single flower with blood red petals and a magenta central disk grows at the top, reappearing after 10 years, but only when the conditions are right again. The flower head is an uncoordinated mess of up to 50 petals. It has a powerful scent that smells like cigarette smoke.

The leaf succulent's skin is delicate, the bronze flesh is rough, and the hazel sap is thin and causes diarrhea if consumed.