Perennial succulent plant with fleshy, greenish-gray cylindrical stems that over time intertwine with each other. It has very few leaves, with the appearance of small scales, which form only on the new growth. Its flowers are very particular, of a unique beauty: they have a round base and then continue in the shape of a tube that makes them look like a lantern with 5 greenish-gray petals, which are enclosed in a kind of small cage.