Pachyphytum oviferum is a prostrate succulent plant up to 4 inches (10 cm) tall and up to 12 inches (30 cm) wide with white stems bearing pale blue-green to bluish-purple rounded leaves in a rosette at the stems tips. The flowers, which appear in winter to early spring atop reddish 1 foot (30 cm) long stems, have red-orange petals surrounded by fleshy sepals the same color as the foliage.
