Forms low-growing, tight rosettes up to 3 inches (8 cm) in diameter. The slender, triangular leaves are greenish-yellow to dark waxy green, featuring a net-like (reticulate) pattern with translucent window panes.
Margins and keels are heavily fringed with firm, glass-like white hairs or spines. The leaf surfaces are speckled with raised white dots.
Produces remarkably large, creamy-white or beige flowers with pinkish tips on slender stalks up to 12 inches (30 cm) tall, usually blooming from late winter to spring.
