Tylecodon pearsonii (Succulents)

The species name honors a South African botanist, Henry Harold Welch Pearson. It is a shrubby succulent, slightly branched, which does not exceed 30 cm in height. It produces a tuberous stem, thick and woody, partially underground, on the top of which lanceolate leaves up to 5 cm long grow, that are of a cylindrical shape with a diameter of about 0.4 cm and a color that can vary from glaucous green to brownish-green, covered with small sparse whitish hairs. In summer, when the plant begins to lose its leaves, its beautiful white tubular flowers with reddish stripes appear.