This is “H. fusca”. One of those pesky species described on the basis of a single population. It is from east of Albertinia on the way to Cooper Siding. Thankfully the finder was not “honoured” in the naming and at least the overly sensitive narcissistic element of a name change is avoided. I call it H. pygmaea ‘fusca’ and it is pivotal in the awareness that we have a single gene pool (species/system) from which many different variants have sprung.

This from east of Cooper Siding and like a tilting mousetrap sends us from the comfort of a easy to follow set of names into the web of confusion about what names mean to different people. What memories! I so wish I could empty them all out to laugh away (or at, or better still, share), the amazing history that so colours my experience with Haworthia and Latin names … AND PEOPLE – amazing people in the nicest sense.