Conophytum flavum

Conophytum flavum, the yellow cone plant, is a small South African species of succulent flowering plant of the family Aizoaceae.

Description
This species has rounded, flattened (truncated) bodies, covered with many idioblasts. Its flowers, which appear in autumn and winter, are unscented and yellow (flavum is Latin for "golden" ).

Distribution and habitat
It is indigenous to the arid winter-rainfall Namaqualand region, in the far west of South Africa. Here it grows in rocky outcrops and crevices.

In cultivation in the UK this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. (confirmed 2017).