[2] It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

[3] It grows as a rounded, heavily branched succulent shrub and reaches heights of up to 600 millimeters.

The broadly egg-shaped, bare, gray-green leaf blade is powdery.

The hermaphrodite flower is radially symmetrical and has five petals with a double perianth.

The plant is included in USDA Hardiness Zones 9b to 12, therefore it should not be exposed to temperatures below 55 °F (12.8 °C), and never below 25 °F (-3.9 °C), although it is preferable that the lower limit is between 41 and 50 °F (50 and 10 °C).