Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, St. Albans, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
WRS [Sykes WR] 414/99
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
30-6-99
Start date:
1999-06-30
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Cultivated on sunny windowsill. Succulent shrubby plant with short stout trunk. Leaves to 9x6.5cm, ± broad obovate, thick and very fleshy, glossy red or greenish-red, somewhat concave above; apex truncate to almost rounded. Flowers ± secund, fleshy, triangular. Corolla 10-11mm long; segments ± free to base, obtusely keeled on back, remaining ± erect, orange, at least on exposed side. Stamens twice number of petals, slightly shorter. Glands much wider than long, almost sublunate. Rarely flowers.