Caralluma

This sturdy, floriferous species bears elongated quadrangular stems crowned with dense clusters of dark purple and yellow flowers smelling strongly of cow dung. It branches from the base, creating compact, small clumps.

A beautiful succulent known only in cultivation, reminiscent of C. lutea but differing in emerald-green ribs with violet shading and softer, more closely spaced, upward-pointing teeth. Five-pointed flowers with intense, velvety coloration in autumn.