Oscularia deltoides

Oscularia deltoides is a sprawling or erect leaf succulent that becomes about 10 cm tall but up to 50 cm wide. It forms a dense, shrubby mat or ground cover from multiple branching of stems covered in slightly unequal pairs of sessile, succulent leaves. The predominantly pale, multicoloured leaves of the plant, commonly known in Afrikaans as the dassievygie (hyrax mesemb) or sandsteenvygie (sandstone mesemb), ranges from silvery grey, green, blue to occasional orange. Identification is facilitated by the pointy, squat leaves that are triangular and club-shaped. The pinkish red to purplish teeth spaced along the margins of the three-sided leaves also help. 

The summer flowers, shiny pink or white and small, grow in large numbers to almost covering the leaves in season.

O. deltoides grows in nature in the southwest of the Western Cape, mainly from Tulbagh to Caledon and Riversdale. 

The plant grows among rocks on fynbos and scrub slopes. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century.

Some species of the older, more diverse Lampranthus genus, including this one, have been moved to Oscularia some time ago (Smith, et al, 2017; Smith, et al, 1998; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; Wikipedia; http://redlist.sanbi.org).