Pachypodium rutenbergianum v meridionale Large Seed Grown Madagascar Palm

Large growing species with long, graceful canoe shaped leaves and pinwheel shaped white flowers. Thorns sparse up and down trunk but thick on branches. Deciduous but sculptural. Stunning when in full leaf. Seed grown plants in 1 gallon pots. Thick trunks! Taxonomy from Kew: Synonyms Has 2 Synonyms   KB Heterotypic Synonyms Pachypodium meridionale (H.Perrier) Pichon in Mém. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Sér. B, Biol. Vég. 2: 109 (1949) Pachypodium rutenbergianum var. meridionale H.Perrier in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 53: 311 (1934) Dormancy: This plant is winter and drought deciduous. If you purchase this plant in the late fall/winter/early spring, it will not have leaves. As it starts to warm up, you can water more frequently to encourage it to start growing new leaves.  Even during spring/summer/early fall, this plant may still drop leaves in transit. This is normal and expected. When plants are put in a stressful situation, which includes being bare rooted and put in a dark box