This species is a dedicated summer grower, syncing its main vegetative push and metabolic activity with the arrival of high temperatures and seasonal monsoonal storms. Throughout the warm months, it pushes small, delicate white-to-light-pink flowers from the heavily woolly center of the apex. In the late autumn, it begins to contract, and it enters a profound winter dormancy where the large, subterranean napiform taproot shrinks slightly, pulling the button tight against or beneath the soil surface to withstand the cold, dry winter months. In cultivation, it requires a lean, porous, mineral-heavy and low-organic substrate (such as 85% pumice, crushed limestone, and granite grit) and must be watered only during the heat of summer once the soil has dried out completely, remaining bone-dry throughout the winter rest.