The species is popular with modern gardeners as a putatively medicinal plant and for its interesting flowers, form, and succulence.
This succulence enables the species to survive in areas of low natural rainfall, making it ideal for rockeries and other low water-use gardens.
In the postures of some figures we feel an animal sentience, in the ripe anatomy of others we savour a fruity succulence.
Touch and sight are also important in relation to specific plant characteristics, such as succulence and growth form.
