Slipper Plant Traditional Cache
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The Slipper Plant or Candelilla (Pedilanthus macrocarpus) is native to the Sonoran Desert of Baja California and Sonora, Mexico. It is a common accent plant in desert and xeriscape gardens here in southern Arizona. This perennial plant can occasionally grow up to 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, but it usually stays below 4 feet (1.2 m) in height. Slipper Plant or Candelilla has green, succulent stems and tiny, inconspicuous leaves.
Not only are the fleshy stems shaped rather like slender candle tapers, they are also thickly coated in a type of vegetable wax known as Candelilla (little candle) wax, which is used in candles, cosmetics, chewing gum, polishes, food coatings, dyes, and in many other products. Actually, Candelilla wax is not commercially obtained from this species, but primarily from a related Candelilla plant also in the Spurge Family (Euphorbiaceae), Euphorbia Antisyphillitica, which has higher quality wax than Pedilanthus species.
Slipper Plant or Candelilla has wonderfully odd-looking, bird-like, orange flowers. The closed flower buds look like Arabian slippers or bird heads with a reddish beak and an orange crest.
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