Xerophyte

Description

Sometimes solitary this species may forms groups, but it grows very slowly and it can take much time until a stem branches for the first time.

Flowers

Showy, nearly as large as the plant bodies up to 3 cm long (or more), from almost full white to pink with white edges to completely pink, .

Blooming Season

Midsummer

Stem

Soft, globose to depressed conical when growing in habitat. While cultivated plant have (frequently) oblong offsetting , green or grey-green epidermis that tinge, Up to 6(-9) cm tall, 5(-9) in diameter