Tag: Indoor Plant

  • Faucaria felina – Tiger Jaws

    Faucaria felina – Tiger Jaws

    Does well outside or indoors dislikes full afternoon sun and requires really bright light if indoors hit me up on the forum if you want to do a swap.

    Common Names:
    Cat Chap, Tiger Jaws, Cat Jaws, Wolf-mouth Mesemb

    Description: Faucaria felina iss a compact leaf succulent forming unusual clumps of fleshy, boat-shaped, toothed leaves
    Stem Not mush to see .
    Leaves: Up to 70 mm long, 5-20 mm broad, slender, spreading, rhomboidal, somewhat elongated, tapering gradually, keeled. Margins with 3-5 teeth in the upper half (rarely more or less); teeth broad, fleshy, curved, white or pink ending in papillate awns of 0,5 to 3 mm length. Faces of leaves dark green to grey-green smooth or with indistinct whitish-grey dots, wax cover thin, crystals in the outer walls in certain areas resulting in white dots.
    Flowers: Daisy-like up to 5 cm in diameter.
    Blooming season: Autumn into winter.
    Fruit: Base broadly bell-shaped, top with the valves often raised in the centre, 10-16 mm long, 9-11 mm in diameter.
    Seeds: 1,4-1,5 mm broad.