page_title: Curio ficoides
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Curio ficoides / Description
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Senecio ficoides
context_page_description: Curio ficoides, syn. Senecio ficoides, also known as skyscraper Senecio and Mount Everest Senecio, is a species of succulent plant, in the genus Curio, indigenous to South Africa.
context_section_description: A succulent, spreading shrub, it reaches over 1 meter in height. The brittle, succulent branches lose their leaves lower down. 
  The leaves are blue-green to blue grey, pruinose, succulent, erect, tapering and flattened laterally, with translucent lines down both sides. 
  The flower capitula have no ray florets, and appear on a terminal, branching inflorescence.
caption: Spreading, scrambling form of the leaves.
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