It can be haworthia cymbiformis. Another similar one is H. retusa.

Hi, Charline ... Thank you for your help. I think it's a retusa because of the stripes. It's just still a pup. I have the cymbiformis and that one is visibly 'Cathedral Window'.

Can we see the bottom of the leaves?

The underside of the leaves are purplish, more so near the central 'stem'. I have him where he receives bright sunlight all day, and directly during the latter half of the afternoon.

Hope this is sufficient. I didn't want to take the pup out of its soil ... He's nice and firm and doing so well.

IDs for Haworthia can be tricky because they can really look different depending on growing conditions but I would compare this to Haworthia mirabilis.

This is my H. retusa for reference.

I think H. retusa and H. miribalis look too much alike. Is the differentiation in the purplish underside?

Haworthia cooperi doesn't have retuse leaves.

If you look at Charline's retusa notice it doesn't have ciliated leaf margins.

Soooo ... Which one is mine? Definitely not retusa? That leaves cooperi and miribalis.

Yours can be retusa, or a hybrid with cooperii. You just need to wait a bit longer. Once it's bigger, it will become more obvious.

Meh, I don't know lol

It may be a hybrid of mirabilis and retusa. It can even be a cross between different mirabilis varieties. What it isn't is cooperi. Mirabilis tend to have slight bumps (tubercles) on the surface and the back of the leaves. Those that do have smooth surfaces tend to not have hairs on the leaf margins. Retusas tend to be very smooth and dark green in the shade and red when grown in the sun, except the nigra variety which sometimes has tubercles. Neither has hairs on the leaf margins. Or, more likely, it came down so far from a variety of different species that it will be impossible to ID it for sure.

The bottom line is that, there is no short cut to growing it for several seasons and seeing how it behaves when it isn't etiolated, over-watered or over-fertilized. Then narrow down the possibilities further by finding out whether it clumps or not; further down to what time of the year it blooms (early or late in the growing season?). Then, test what it looks like when it gets full sun vs what it looks like in the shade (different ssps, vars and/or affs behave differently under different light, water, nutrient, temperature conditions).

Even then, you may only be able to guess the parentage (i'm fairly sure it's a hybrid and that still may be wrong). If it was from an open-pollinated plant, you'll have to guess what could also be blooming at the same time.

Haworthias are annoying like that. I personally think identification based on morphology is a lost cause. If anyone ever gets to mapping these genes, I bet we'll all be shocked.

Oh, rats, Pagan! There you go messing up my neat little "everything ID'd" system! LOL!! I was hoping you'd answer and completely understand your response. I am going to grow this one in full midday through evening Caribbean sun. It seems to be happy there. Will keep you posted on its development as it clumps or not and blooms. For now, it will be labeled "Haworthia hybrid."

So nice to see you here. I have moved to FB as administrator for several local garden groups. If you'd like to see my page, look for me: Maria Elena, Arecibo ... B&W close-up looking through a garden window with a red rose on the lower right hand corner. If you use FB, friend me.

I recently posted some of my adeniums blooms here. If I recall, you are more into the caudex. I have not began raising mine yet ... the oldest is only 3 years old ... so have nothing much to show in that area. Maybe next year. I can tell you that KOs Desert Night Fork, Dino's Diamond King, and the variant PBN hybrids are very impressive! Some of KOs Brazilian developed black skinned but look just like an obesum, not at all arabicum-like.

Be well and enjoy the summer.

Maria Elena