Haworthia scabra is a South African indigenous succulent that forms a basal rosette of dark green to purple-brownish rough leaves which are covered in tubercles.
The specie name, scabra, means rough. It is a variable slow growing species.
Some forms are offsetting, others remains solitary.
The form of the plants varies from having the leaves distinctly tiered, in either 3 or 5 vertical tiers, and either incurved or sub-erect and spreading.
It has a branched inflorescence of spirally arranged pinkish-white flowers with grey green keels. It flowers from summer to autumn.
