caudex

She loves caudiciform succulents — plants that have an above-soil round caudex — and designs squat planters that highlight the plant’s swollen stem.

The word code comes from the Latin caudex, the wooden pith of a tree on which scribes carved their writing.

June–Aug.—Plant raised on its prolonged caudex when growing in water.

The stem is short or entirely wanting, arising from a long and thick caudex.

Some sorts, the present one included, are not very readily propagated, as the crowns are not on separate pieces of root, but often crowded on a woody caudex.