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It has minute green leaves which are each protected and hidden by the
white, papery stipule, a characteristic of the Avonia genus.
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Description: This species is the most common, largest and
stoutest of the Avonia group (the paper scale covered
Anacampseros). These unusual, plants have relatively large diameter
stems (5-6 mm) compared with other members of the genus and develop a
mass of miniature branching erect or creeping stems (Maximum size
5-10 (15) cm. When grown from seed, produces branches from the top of
tuber-like roots pulled down into the ground.
It has minute green leaves which are each protected and hidden by very
closely imbricated and pure white, papery stipule, a characteristic of
the Avonia genus.
Flowers: The flowers are
very small whitish-green and solitary, they last less than an hour, and
are so unobtrusively that it is very difficult to recognized them as
flower.
Cultivation: Plants grow very slowly and requires careful
cultivation, need a very draining soil, full sun and watering from March
to October, keep dry in winter and avoid severe frost.
Reproduction: seed
that germinate at 15-21 °C
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