A miniature only 3 to 4 inches tall in compact rosettes. The leaves are light green with slight speckling of red, red tips that flare outward, and lightly gray banded on the reverse.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

This plant came from a collector in Brazil and we do not have any data on it related to locality. It does resemble plants in the group of Neos going as carcharodon of one sort or another. A medium grower to 20 inches across or so, with wide leaves in a stacked up rosette shape. The leaves are fairly thick and leathery with stout marginal spines, light green blushing coppery pink and suffused with reddish speckles and a black leaf tips ending in a hook like spine.

*VIPP plants are Offsets - NOT the mature plant in the photo