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This hybrid is also called
E. 'japonica' (nomen nudum),
E.'cocklebur' .
The stems are succulent and globular like susannae while the leaves are bluish and channeled like bupleurifolia, but very much shorter.
Picture shows a group in winter rest.
Never saw a flowering plant.

"Portrait de Marie-Thérèse Walter 4"
Paris, 4.12.1937; 38 x 46 cm
Original in: "Musée Picasso, Paris

The tribe SENECIONEAE belongs to the ASTEROIDEAE in family Asteraceae (Korbblütler; sun flowers). Their small flowers (~10 mm in diameter) are very similar in structure to sunflowers and asters.

S. herreianus is a succulent form in almost dry rocky regions of South West Africa (Namibia). The form of succulent leafs differenciate the species herreianus from S. rowleyanus (formed like balls), both plants in culture. Plants are toxic in all parts.

named after HERRER (1895-1979)
Herbar: Berlin-Dahlem
ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/view_large.cfm?SpecimenPK=11671&am...
syn. Kleinia herreiana Dinter Merxm., Currio herreanus Dinter
"Perlenkette"

var fragilis mit fehlenden MD, weiss, braun gespitzt; Petalen creme-weiss lanzettlich, Sepalen mittig rosa; Fruchtknoten und Staubgefaesse hell-gelb; Fruechte rot, Tr. sehr leicht abbrechend (namensgebend für die Varietaet)
Bluete Spaetsommer/Herbst
Typus aus Sprossvermehrung Ursprung Botanischer Garten Heidelberg 2009
Die Art ist sehr variabel, entsprechend die tax. Einordnung:
PFEIFFER, 1838 Erstbeschreibung
SALM-DYCK 1849 M. gracilis
A. BERGER 1929 M. gracilis v. fragilis (SD)
BACKEBERG 1984, Bd. V, S.3246ff.
BRITTON&ROSE M. fragilis SD

syn. MESEMBRYANTHEMUM bilobum Marloth, 1907
syn. CONOPHYTUM cordatum Schick & Tischer, 1927
Habitat: South Africa;
origin of specimen: Botanic Garden Bonn-Poppelsdorf (Germany)
Description:
The robust plants are caespitose, stemless or short stems develop with time. Named for the distinctive two lobes. The bodies (10-70mm length of base to apex x 10-30 mm across apex, transverse to fissure x 10-20 mm across apex, along fissure) are cuneate-oblong, laterally compressed to subcylindrical. The leaf-tips (lobes) are free and are 3-10mm long and triangular in shape and keeled, the keel margins are green to red or deep purple in colour. The epidermis is glabrous to velvety or quite asperulous, it is whitish-green to glaucous to deep blue green or brownish pink in colour. Epidermis could be heavily spotted or completey smooth. The fissure is ciliate and may be gaping, the fissure is often surrounded by a windowed band (hardly ever blistered or inflated) which extends down the flanks of the body. The scentless flowers (largest of the genus) are autumnal (rarely estival) and diurnal. The herbaceous calyx-tube is 3-10 mm long with 4-7 sepals (6mm long x 3mm wide). 24-60 yellow petals are present in 2-4 series, they are 25mm long and 3mm wide (often tinged red at the tips). The stamens are numerous (4-15mm long), filaments are green to yellow and the deep yellow anthers are 2mm long. The style is 1-8mm long and the stigmas are 5-8mm long. The persistent woody capsules are 5-8 locular, 6x6mm in size, deep brown to maroon or blackish in colour. Seeds numerous.