Lilac Succulent

This short caudiciform grows up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall. The needle-like stem is lime green, and is covered in many fine, white, hair-like spines. It has a slanted, bulbous, yellow trunk atop a thick platform of smooth, exposed roots. The branches are thick, gnarled and cream or peach and are very short and slender.

The smooth-edged, long, tapering leaves are a shade of red that gradient shifts to violet at the top. They are robust, but detach easily.

It is steady-growing, taking 10 months to reach maturity. Once mature, and only under the right conditions, a handful of flowers, with petals that are caramel in the center, cream in the middle and bronze at the edges, grow at the top, reappearing after 4 years, but only when the conditions are right again. The flower head is made up of dozens of petals; the lower layer of petals are flat, while the upper layers form a tight heart. It has an intense scent that smells like rotten meat.

The caudiciform's skin is thin, the sky blue flesh is smooth, and the lilac sap is thin and can kill if consumed.