| Scientific Name: | Faucaria tigrina |
| Common Name: | tiger's jaws |
| Family Name: | Aizoaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant, Succulent or Cacti |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Basal, Succulent, Glabrous, Ovate, Rhomboidal, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Yellow |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Red, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal and in opposite pairs, crowded, thick, succulent, ovate-rhomboid,most 2.5-4cm long x 1.5-2cm wide, rounded undersides speckled with white dots that may turn red-purple, inside margins dentate like an animal's mouth, teeth tipped with long soft bristles that tend to bend towards centre of plant. | |