Huernia verekeri flower

Huernia verekeri plants flower profusely, producing one to five flowers on thick pedicels of 1 cm in length, emerging near the base of the stems. Many small, pointed bracts are positioned at the pedicel base. The pointy sepals become up to 8 mm long.

The pale, star-shaped flowers open in succession and point outwards. The thin, tapering corolla lobes have angled points suggesting rotation, much like a clown in a too big suit doing cartwheels.

Flower colour is cream with a pinkish purple ring upon the rim of the circular corolla mouth, the tube wide and shallow. Tiny purple hairs may be present on the corolla outside the mouth, some purple surface colouring inside the mouth, mostly near the rim. In the photo the hairs are mainly in patches in the sinuses between the five corolla lobes, the purplish surface patches opposite them, just inside the rim.

Flower diameter varies from 3,5 cm to 4,5 cm (iSpot; www.llifle.com).