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One of the best of the many mesembs that have been making the rounds thanks to all the South African collecting expeditions, tight cushions of fleshy leaves and large pink daisies on short stems, very slow from cuttings.

Distinguished by the acutely carinate lower leaf surfaces and yellowish red flowers that open in the afternoon, it is great in mixed succulent troughs.

Yet another of the "Hardy" Delosperma-like mesembs (hardy in Denver's zone five has become something of a joke around here, which is why I have such disdain for zone maps). It survived the winter here but died in the spring mushy season, like most of them it needs it dry to make it, but it is easy to bring a piece inside, they root like weeds.

Spectacular looking with big gray fleshy round leaves with a reddish edge and brilliant orange red flowers on meter high plants. Halda collected this up high in the Drakensburg back in the mid 90’s, it probably is the most cold hardy form in cultivation although it melted outside for Dick and Tony; it may be great out west. In terms of floral display and foliage effect, no other succulent we grow even comes close.____ZONE 6