Huernia decipiens

Description

Huernia (huerniopsis) decipiens,  is a distinct stapeliad characterized by flowers of elaborate design and beauty that came in a wide variety of colours, either uniform shades of reddish, brown, maroon, or faintly green with white or with a varying amount of yellowish mottling. Under cultivation the flowers emit their very sweetish-nauseous odour most strongly during the evening, the next morning it has almost disappeared, so this plant is probably fertilised by a late-flying insect. The corona-lobes secrete a sweet fluid copiously upon their backs and sides. Flowers opens simultaneously or with long intervals in late Summer or Autumn.