PORTULACARIA pygmaea (previously CERARIA pygmaea)

Ceraria pygmaea is a dwarf dioecious, more or less evergreen, glabrous, succulent plants or mini-shrub that, as it matures, it develops a fat tuberous water-storing rootstocks to about 7-10 cm wide. The rootstock is a morphologically hardly identifiable tissue complex, composed of parts of the root, the hypocotyl, the epicotyl and the shoot. Plants with such tissue complexes are called caudiciforms. The plants are compact and bear a large number of very short branches, and forms small mounds up to 200 mm tall and 300 mm in diameter. The small succulent leaves are somewhat bluish or yellowish with a finely warty surface, and the tiny flowers are white to pale pink. Ceraria pygmaea is one of the few succulent plants that stores water in both the trunk and leaves.