Star flower Succulent - potted
This succulent is growing in a 12cms plastic pot.
Name: Orbea Variegata
Has thick fleshy leaves, with no spines.
Each year it thrusts out dramatic brown speckled flowers which hang down the side of the pot on thin curved stems. A five pointed star within a circle within a large 5 pointed star which is about the golfball size ( but flat not round)
The last pic is of my parent plant.
The first two pics are of the plant that is on sale.
Thanks for looking.
Pickup is in Kuripuni.
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