More blooming mesembs

I promised to bombard you with mesemb flowers as they happen and so here's another. I always thought that these were some kind of Titanopsis but it turns out that they are Aloinopsis, I think lodewykii. These flowers have been playing hide-and seek with me for a few days now, I couldn't catch them open because I was expecting them to behave like the Titanopsis flowers, which only open in direct sunlight. I kept checking on them in the morning, and around midday because that is when the area they grow in gets direct sunlight

I got home from work at 3 pm this afternoon and finally got to see them open. Opening later in the day is typical for Aloinopsis and these opened for about 2 hours and then closed again. Flowers like these are probably pollinated by solitary bees, which are active later in the afternoon.

A view of the lumpy, bumpy leaves. Now that I know that this is Aloinopsis, I need to get it into a deeper pot because this genus makes a large underground root and getting it into a bigger pot will encourage the roots to develop. Some people grow these like bonsai, with the rootstock exposed but I find that this makes them delicate and more difficult to keep so I am happier to leave it underground.