Curio articulatus
Curio articulatus, syn. Senecio articulatus and Baculellum articulatum, which is also known as candle plant, pickle plant and hot dog cactus, is a deciduous succulent plant that is native to South Africa. Its nicknames are derived from its distinctive swollen and jointed stems.
Description
The plant features bluish green or grey sausage-shaped stems, and leaves that are olive green atop and purplish below. It is usually dormant and leafless for most part of the year, but would come to life in winter with new leaves and white to pinkish discoid flowers. It forms a sprawling clump or a subshrub that is 22-40 cm high and would spread by tubers which develop an underground mainstay system.The inflorescences are 12-20 cm tall, forked corymbs with small heads and without rays, that are mainly made of cup-shaped, inconspicuous and repugnant-odoured disk-flowers that are pollinated by insects such as flies, beetles and bees.