Succulent tree, up to 18 m high, spiny. Secondary branches deciduous with age leaving naked stems, constricted into segments, light green to yellowish green, segments 75-300 mm long. Spine-shields usually separate. Spines in pairs, 8-18 mm apart. Cymes 2 or 3 together from a flowering-eye. Flowers yellow.
Monoecious, spiny tree with 1-several, ± cylindrical trunks each bearing a crown of ascending 3-5-angled green branches to 1.5 m long, 40-100 mm diam., branches constricted into segments, spines 3-8 mm long. Leaves 3-7 x 4-6 mm, ovate, deciduous. Cyathia 4-5 mm diam., glands yellow.
A spiny tree. It can grow 18 m tall. It can have one or several trunks. These have a crown of 3-5 angled branches 1 m long and 4-10 cm thick. They have spines. The leaves are 3-7 mm long by 4-6 mm wide. The cup shaped flower heads are yellow.