Indigo Succulent

This modest-sized leaf succulent grows up to 40 feet (12.2 meters) tall. The thick stem is lime green, and is covered in hundreds of fine, olive, hair-like spines. The smooth-edged, very thick leaves are generally indigo. Large amounts of them grow from the base in a random bunch. The leaves are delicate, and easily come away when pulled.

It is very slow growing, taking 50 years to reach maturity. Once mature, and only under the right conditions, a handful of flowers, with petals that are turquoise in the center, copper in the middle and intense blue at the edges, grow at the top, reappearing after 6 years, but only when the conditions are right again. The flower head is an uncoordinated mess of 42 curved petals. It has a weak scent that smells like a damp log.

The leaf succulent's skin is thin, the blood red flesh is rough, and the violet sap is thin.