Tallish plants made up of one or a few stalks. The unusually-shaped flowers come in large ball-shaped clumps, with up to 50 small flowers per clump. Each stalk may have a handful of clumps. Each flower within these has 5 elongated, pointy whitish/pink upper petals stretched into shallow hoods, and 5 upturned sepals(?) below that that are darker pinkish. Leaves are very large (up to a foot long), soft and light green, with a thick, sometimes reddish vein down the middle. Leaves and stems exude a milky sap when snapped or cut. Large, bowling ball-shaped seedpods eventually form, which change from light green to beige and split down the middle when ripe, releasing teardrop-shaped brown seeds with fluffy, silky parachutes.