Pachyphytum oviferum Purpus

Moonstones

Plant becoming prostrate as it grows. Leaves obovate, to 5 cm long, 3 cm wide, crowded, thick, rounded at the tip and with a waxy covering, extremely smooth and often suffused with lavender, looking like sugared almonds. Flower clusters of 7-15 flowers on stems to about 10 cm long. Flowers about 1 cm long; late winter to early spring.

Mexico.

Source: Stajsic, V.; Spencer, R.; Forster, P.; Thompson, A. (2002). Crassulaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     [Saxifraganae]
order      Saxifragales
family       Crassulaceae