They should be grown under cover so that watering can be controlled. They should be treated as an outdoor plants as they will easily rot indoors and cannot flower without exposure to outdoor temperature fluctuations. They split on the side, releasing seeds with hairy attachments in wind dispersal. Fruits are paired follicles with reddish markings and resemble antelope horns. They are up to 1.1 inches (2.7 cm) across and produced in large numbers in many dense, more or less simultaneously opening clusters along grooves of the stems in fall. Flowers are dark purple-black inside, and this dark color continues just into the mouth of the tube, where it breaks up to form spots and rings on a white background in the tube. They are up to 20 inches (50 cm) long, up to 1.6 inches (4 cm) in diameter, and branch mostly from their base and root only from the central stem. The stems are green to purple or brown, occasionally green mottled with purple-brown. It grows to 20 inches (50 cm) in height and spreads to 2 feet (60 cm). Quaqua mammillaris is a densely branched succulent shrub with green leafless 4- to 5-angled stems with irregularly arranged tubercles very sharply armed with a hard, yellow-brown spike. Stapelia mammillaris , Boucerosia mammillaris, Caralluma mammillaris, Caralluma winkleri, Caralluma winkleriana, Pectinaria mammillaris, Piaranthus mammillaris Quaqua mammillaris (L.) Bruyns Common Name(s)

Quaqua apanha marica