Echidnopsis malum (Succulents)

The name of this peculiar species refers to "Malus", a genus of apples, due to the extremely unusual shape of its fleshy and spherical flowers, similar to an urn, with green shades streaked with red, with purple inside. It consists of slender cylindrical stems that do not exceed 15 cm in height and tend to prostrate themselves on the ground while maintaining a creeping and slightly wavy trend. Each stem is divided into little pronounced and tuberculate ribs, adorned with three-dimensional whitish markings at the points where it loses the fragile leaflets. The epidermis is rough to the touch and takes on changing tones from dark green to an intense purple when the succulent is abundantly exposed to sunlight.