Habitat cliffs and rocky slopes in the hot desert. The stems of the Dead Sea Caralluma break off, and role away from the mother plant, root and develop into new plants. This is an asexual reproduction, which occurs in addition to sexual reproduction in flowers and fruit. In the past the Caralluma sinaica was considered a species endemic to Jordan, and was named Caralluma maris-mortui, but was then found to be identical to the Caralluma which appears along the coastal ridges of the Red Sea and is known as Caralluma sinaica. In the Negev Highlands to the Judean mountains grows an addition species – Caralluma eurapaea, which is characterized by striped triangulat petals, and stems that are not narrow on top.