Pleiospilos compactus subsp. canus leaf

This lush, well-developed Pleiospilos compactus subsp. canus leaf is smooth with faint gloss and small, dark green dots scattered upon its whitish green surface. Apart from a small scar, life has not been unkind to it yet.

The upper surface is concave to shallowly and obliquely channelled, the tip skew and truncated. The leaf body is a thickly succulent slab, only its upper surface angular but not evenly throughout.

Leaf shape, size, orientation, colour and dots are variable in this plant (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist).