The most usual form is a small upright shrub with red flowers. The form shown in the photo is a low spreading shrub with thick green bottlebrush flowers, flowering several times per year. Prostrate shrub with gold tipped red bottlebrush flowers several times per year. Calostemma luteum Garland lily. A small plant with strap-like leaves to 40cm.
Plants die back to the tuber in dry times.
Heads of bright yellow flowers develop from a flowering stalk in summer. There are similar plants with pink or bright red flowers. Calostemma species Similar to Calostemma luteum above, but has pink flowers with some yellow in the centres. There is also a type which has deep red flowers. Carpobrotus aequilaterus Pigface.