Haworthia cooperi

Pull off older flower spikes once they are completely dry.

Exceptional choice for pots, even very small ones.

This haworthia offsets from the base, creating a small colony over time. Once a pup is established with its own roots, they are easily divided and repotted.

One grower reports that if left in a tiny pot root bound for many years many leaves in the crown will suddenly appear to die off. Once the leaves shed easily the plant sends up new pups where the previous leaves were. A curios growth strategy we have not seen before.

Keep an eye out on your flowers as haworthia often set keikis—small pups dangling from the flower spike—that can be replanted once the flower spike begins to wane.

The 'windows' of this plant are a fascinating adaptation. In habitat the plant grows with the leaf mostly underground, and only its windows exposed right at soil level. This allows sunlight to penetrate the leaf which photosynthesizes from the inside! In this way the plant gets a large surface area to photosynthesize with, but only a very small surface area exposed to the elements. Many succulent windows will illuminate if you shine a light in them, or place them in a window where they can be backlit.