Succulent soft wooded shrub to several metres tall. Leaves opposite, fleshy, to 2 cm long, stalkless. Flowers tiny, pink, in small clusters. Sepals 2. Petals 5. Stamens 4-7.
S Africa
Source: (1997). Portulacaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Leaves variegated.