Name chosen by the French botanist Adanson, is the indoor plant par excellence, which, with its fleshy, shiny and rich in water leaves, perfectly manages to live in the dry climates of the apartments, adorning your environments thanks to the foliage from the margins. often shaped or crested, many times with nuanced and particular tones, but also thanks to the lively inflorescences, surprisingly long-lasting, able to color your homes in winter. It has large oval leaves with a greyish-green color with brown spots and serrated margins. Succulent as beautiful as useful, it has a truly multifaceted character: used daily in African and Asian folk medicine as an ointment to heal wounds and burns, but also as a decoction to treat ulcers, infections, hypertension and even relieve psychic diseases, on the contrary, in our continent it is widely used in the preparation of creams and cosmetics that tone the skin! Its beautiful tubular flowers are white-pink or yellow-orange in the center of the rosette.