Huernia verekeri

Huernia verekeri is a tropical, southern African stem succulent not indigenous to South Africa. Plants reach heights up to 10 cm.

Its distribution ranges all the way from the west in Namibia and Angola across the subcontinent to Mozambique in the east. The habitat of this plant is stony places under trees or shrubs in woodland.

The five- to seven-angled succulent stems have vertical ridges of soft, long-pointed teeth on laterally compressed tubercles. Stems may be erect, decumbent or ascending in orientation, branching from the base and spreading into a clump. Stem colour varies from green to purplish green (iSpot; www.llifle.com).