🌱 Morphology
A horticultural hybrid of extraordinary personality, appreciated for its fleshy bluish-green or greenish-gray leaves, with edges that can take on pink, reddish, or purple tones. Its unmistakable feature is the caruncles: rounded bumps that appear on the surface of the leaves and resemble water droplets trapped on them. In young plants, they may be underdeveloped and become much more evident with maturity. It forms compact rosettes of approximately 13–15 cm, although it can reach a larger size under optimal conditions.

🌍 Distribution, habitat, and family
A plant of exclusively horticultural origin, so it has no natural distribution or wild habitat of its own. It belongs to the Crassulaceae family.

❄️ Temperature
USDA 9b. It tolerates minimum temperatures down to −2 ºC, provided the substrate remains dry and the exposure to cold is brief.

☀️ Lighting
Full sun, with a recommended DLI PAR of 20–30 mol/m²/day. Intense lighting promotes rosette compaction, intensifies the reddish edges, and helps develop the characteristic caruncles. In the Madrid summer, it may appreciate protection from the most intense sun during the central hours of the day.

💧 Growth cycle and watering.

Opportunistic Growth can occur whenever moderate temperatures, sufficient light, and water availability coincide. It is recommended to water abundantly and allow the substrate to dry completely before the next watering. In winter, with less light and temperature, water supply is drastically reduced.

🌸 Flowering
It generally blooms in summer, through inflorescences with bell-shaped flowers that are pink or reddish on the outside and yellow on the inside. No sufficiently reliable documentation has been found regarding the exact age of the first flowering or its self-fertility.

🌿 Nutrition
During the active growth period, Desert CHOICE® Succulents is recommended, applied after watering. Before flowering, it can be supplemented with Desert CHOICE® Flowering. Fertilizing is not recommended during winter dormancy.

This is an inimitable xerophyte grown in Madrid in a high-tech square pot, with the substrate activated with mycorrhizal fungi and biofungicides.
10x10 cm gourmet black pot

📏 Gourmet xerophyte in a 9x9 cm pot.

* As this is an online purchase, the appearance of the shipped specimen may vary slightly from the product image. The photo description specifies the measurements of the plant, but this may also vary slightly, because it is a living being! Each of the plants at Desert CITY has unique characteristics.