Faucaria tigrina (Haw.) Schwantes

Plants forming compact clumps, stem-forming absent. Leaves very crowded, pressed against each other, more or less erect, ovate-rhomboid in upper half, lowest half of leaves square, sharply keeled at lop. 30-40(-50) x 15-20(-25) mm, toothed: teeth on leaf margins (5-)9-10(-12) with long bristles, pointed backwards; grey-green, turning to bluish purple, margins and keel whitish; epidermis with numerous clearly visible white dots, confluent into larger flecks, often arranged in curved lines towards keel, minute while dots absent. Flowers with 100-120 petals, linear, acute, 1.0-1.25 mm wide; stamens 250-300. Nectaries brownish, surface often 3-ribbed. Fruit stalk absent or (0.5-)2.5-3.8 x 3.0-4.0 mm, 0.9-1.6 mm thick. Fruits coming loose rather easily, top of fruit flattened to slightly spherical. 7.0-9.5 x 8.6-10.0(-12.0) and (6-)8-9 mm thick. Seeds 1.15-1.50 x 1.0-1.25 mm.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.