Flowers range from pink to deep purple and have a darker throat.

Flowers range from pink to deep purple and have a darker throat.

Swollen basal caudex above ground level topped with many branches and flowers ranging from deep pink to dark red.

Swollen basal caudex above ground level topped with many branches and flowers ranging from deep pink to dark red.

The only known location is Mount Ibity near Antsirabe in Northern Madagascar where it grows at an altitude of about 1800 metres.

plants are compact stemless rosettes with bluish-green leaves and red marginal spines.

This is a spectacular species when in flower producing many white flowers and the unopened flower buds look like drooping swans heads.

Coming from Arabia thes plants produce a fat branching body with a crown of green leaves.