Plant 2.5 m height and 1.5 m wide; single trunk, multi-branching ca 5 cm above ground; bark gray, stems brownish-red or gray with stripes; leaves alternate, whorled in groups of 3, elliptical, fleshy, glistening, glandular (tacky); twigs are spine-tipped, stout; flowers tubular, pendulant, 5-6 lobes, outer corolla white, inner corolla faint lavendar; calyx evident, covering about 1/2 of corolla tube.