Delosperma nubigenum

Delosperma nubigenum lives in the Drakensberg of South Africa and the Malutis of Lesotho, which are one mountain range. Here it hangs, anchored from a rock crevice in the east of Lesotho. The long, branched stems scramble, trail (or hang down), usually in ground-covering fashion. The leaves are fleshy and green, elliptic in shape with acutely pointed tips, keeled on the outside. They are said to turn bronze-coloured in winter.

The photo found the plant flowering in January, the rainy summer. The flowers have a few more yellow petals than a single whorl. Orange or yellow anthers top the erect central cluster of stamens and styles. The plant may start flowering in spring and continue until midsummer (Smith, et al, 1998).