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Carpobrotus
''Carpobrotus'', commonly known as pigface, ice plant, sour fig, Hottentot fig, and clawberry is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek ' "fruit" and ' "edible", referring to its edible fruits. The genus includes some 12 to 20 accepted species. Most are endemic to South Africa, but there are at least four Australian species and one South American. Distribution and habitat ''Carpobrotus'' chiefly inhabits sandy coastal habitats in mild Mediterranean climates, and can be also found inland in sandy to marshy places. In general, they prefer open sandy spaces where their wiry, long roots with shorter side branches form dense underground network, which extends much further than above-ground prostrate branches. Plants thrive well in gardens, but can easily escape to other suitable places. They easily form wide-area ground covers over a sandy soil, which easily suppresses indigenous sand dune vegetation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Pulleinei
''Carpobrotus'', commonly known as pigface, ice plant, sour fig, Hottentot fig, and clawberry is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek ' "fruit" and ' "edible", referring to its edible fruits. The genus includes some 12 to 20 accepted species. Most are endemic to South Africa, but there are at least four Australian species and one South American. Distribution and habitat ''Carpobrotus'' chiefly inhabits sandy coastal habitats in mild Mediterranean climates, and can be also found inland in sandy to marshy places. In general, they prefer open sandy spaces where their wiry, long roots with shorter side branches form dense underground network, which extends much further than above-ground prostrate branches. Plants thrive well in gardens, but can easily escape to other suitable places. They easily form wide-area ground covers over a sandy soil, which easily suppresses indigenous sand dune vegetation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Praecox
''Carpobrotus'', commonly known as pigface, ice plant, sour fig, Hottentot fig, and clawberry is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek ' "fruit" and ' "edible", referring to its edible fruits. The genus includes some 12 to 20 accepted species. Most are endemic to South Africa, but there are at least four Australian species and one South American. Distribution and habitat ''Carpobrotus'' chiefly inhabits sandy coastal habitats in mild Mediterranean climates, and can be also found inland in sandy to marshy places. In general, they prefer open sandy spaces where their wiry, long roots with shorter side branches form dense underground network, which extends much further than above-ground prostrate branches. Plants thrive well in gardens, but can easily escape to other suitable places. They easily form wide-area ground covers over a sandy soil, which easily suppresses indigenous sand dune vegetation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Modestus
''Carpobrotus modestus'', commonly known as inland pigface, is a succulent perennial of the family Aizoaceae, native to the coasts of Australia. It produces purple flowers which mature into fruits and is mainly used as a groundcover succulent or as a drought tolerant plant. Distribution ''Carpobrotus modestus'' is situated in heath, shrubland, and woodland areas with clayey-sand. It is recorded in Walpole-Nornalup National Park. The distribution can reach all the way north of Kalbarri, east to Eyre and inland to Newdegate in Western Australia. It is also found around the South Australian-Victorian border. ''Carpobrotus edulis'', also a member of the genus Carpobrotus, is a succulent native to South Africa. In the past, it was most often used as an ornamental plant. One common use for these succulents was to plant them along roadsides. However, it has spread to become invasive. The effects of this invasive species are to smother and reduce the regeneration of native flora. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Edulis
''Carpobrotus edulis'' is a ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genus ''Carpobrotus'', native to South Africa. Its common names include hottentot-fig, sour fig, ice plant or highway ice plant. Description ''Carpobrotus edulis'' is a creeping, mat-forming succulent species. It grows year round, with individual shoot segments growing more than 1 m (3 ft) per year. It can grow to at least 50 m (165 ft) in diameter. The leaves are a dull-green or yellow-green colour. They are only very slightly curved and have serrated sides near the tips. The yellow flowers are produced from April to October, and range from in diameter. Two of the calyx lobes are longer, extending further than the petals. The flowers open in the morning in bright sunlight and close at night. The receptacle is somewhat wedge-shaped, tapering down to the pedicel. The fruit is multi-chambered, ripening from green to yellow. The species is easily confused with its close relatives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Glaucescens
''Carpobrotus glaucescens'', commonly known as pigface or iceplant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Aizoaceae and is Endemism, endemic to eastern Australia. It is a succulent plant, succulent, Prostrate shrub, prostrate plant with stems up to long, glaucous leaves, daisy-like flowers with 100 to 150 light purple to deep pinkish-purple, petal-like staminodes and red to purple fruit. The fruits ripen mainly in Summer and Autumn.Low, Tim; ''Wild Food Plants of Australia'', Angus & Robertson, 1991, It usually only grows very close to the sea. Description ''Carpobrotus glaucescens'' is a prostrate plant with stems up to long and glaucous leaves that are triangular in cross-section, straight or slightly curved, long and wide. The flowers are superficially daisy-like, more or less Sessility (botany), sessile, in diameter with 100 to 150 light purple to deep pinkish-purple staminodes arranged in three or four rows and white near the base. There are about 300 to 400 sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Aequilaterus
''Carpobrotus aequilaterus'', common names: angled pigface, Chilean pigface, This species is thought to have originated in southern Africa (or possibly South America) and a naturalised weed elsewhere. However, according to VicFlora it is native to South Africa, It is also known as the sea fig. The plant grows along the coast from sea level and up to 100 metres higher. It can be found in Chile, California, Mexico, and Australia. It is a naturalised weed in North America, New Zealand, and Australia (in New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia), and Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...). Description ''Carpobrotus aequilaterus'' has an edible fruit. The flavour is said to be like strawberry but they have a poor structure. The flowers ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Mellei
''Carpobrotus mellei'' (commonly known as mountain sourfig, ) is a succulent perennial of the family Aizoaceae, native to the inland mountain ranges of the Western Cape, South Africa. Description The leaves are usually a glaucous green, sometimes reddish along the leaf's edges or angles. The leaf shape is relatively straight, curving mainly at apex. The apex often has a serrated, reddish keel and mucro. The leaves are also somewhat flattened laterally, causing them to form an isosceles triangle in cross-section. The flowers are usually a pale pink or purple colour. The stigmas are very long, at some points rising up above the stamens. The centre of the top of the ovary is raised. The receptacle of ''C. mellei'' is barrel-shaped to turbiniform. Diagnostic characters ''Carpobrotus mellei'' can be distinguished from other similar species in the genus, by a combination of its very long stigmas (usually rising above the stamens), its barrel-shaped or turbiniform receptacle, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Chilensis
''Carpobrotus chilensis'' is a species of succulent plant known by the common name sea fig. It grows on coastal sand dunes and bluffs and is used as an ornamental plant, and it is also edible. However, along with its even more troublesome cousin, '' C. edulis'', it has invaded sections of the California coast at the expense of native vegetation, and is subject to control efforts. Description ''Carpobrotus chilensis'' sends out prostrate stems that are upwards of long; these root at the nodes and can carpet the ground, with fleshy, pointed leaves which are long and triangular in cross-section. It is similar to, and often mistaken for, its close relative the "ice plant" (''Carpobrotus edulis''), which is larger, and grows alongside and sometimes hybridizes with ''C. chilensis''. For comparison, the larger flowers of ''C. edulis'' ( in diameter) are yellow or light pink, whereas ''C. chilensis'' flowers are smaller ( in diameter) and deep magenta. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Acinaciformis
''Carpobrotus acinaciformis'' (commonly known as Elands sourfig, Elandssuurvy or Sally-my-handsome) is a succulent Perennial plant, perennial of the family Aizoaceae, native to South Africa. Description All species of ''Carpobrotus'' ("sour fig") form sprawling succulent groundcovers. The flowers of ''C. acinaciformis'' are a bright pink-purple colour. The five calyx lobes are all short, and of relatively similar length (unlike those of ''Carpobrotus edulis, C. edulis''). The Receptacle (botany), receptacle is sub-globose in shape (rarely slightly oblong), tapering only slightly down to where it meets the stalk. The top of the ovary is often slightly depressed in the centre. The leaves of ''C. acinaciformis'' are stout, scimitar-shaped ("acinaciform") and have the shape of an isosceles triangle in cross-section, if cut perpendicularly. They have a dull glaucous-green colour (sometimes with reddish edges or angles). Distribution This species is naturally endemic to the We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Muirii
''Carpobrotus muirii'' (commonly known as dwarf sourfig or Dwerg Suurvy) is a succulent perennial of the family Aizoaceae, native to the Overberg region in the Western Cape, South Africa. Description This species of '' Carpobrotus'' has distinctively slender (40–80mm x 5–6 mm), incurved, glaucous-green leaves. Its receptacle is subglobose to ovate, with a base that narrows rather abruptly where it meets the stalk. The ovary has a top that is usually flat-to-depressed in the centre. Related species Of the other six '' Carpobrotus'' species which occur in South Africa, this species is particularly closely related to '' Carpobrotus deliciosus'', which has a similar shaped receptacle, but the latter is a much larger plant that occurs further to the east, mainly in the Eastern Cape. The dwarf sourfig has much thinner, narrower leaves, and only occurs in the Western Cape. Distribution This species has a small distribution range, being restricted to the Overberg region in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Deliciosus
''Carpobrotus deliciosus'' (commonly known as sweet Hottentots fig, perdevy, ghaukum, ghounavy) is a succulent perennial of the family Aizoaceae, native to a strip along the south coast of South Africa. Description The flowers of this Carpobrotus ("Sour-fig") species range in colour from purple and pink to white, and these are followed by fruits that are less sour and more pleasant tasting that those of its relatives, hence its name. The receptacle is distinctively subglobose or "bowl-shaped", and it constricts abruptly at the base, where it meets the pedicel. The top of the ovary is often raised in the centre. Its leaves are almost straight (slightly subacinaciform) and curve mainly at the tip. They are a green to glaucous-green colour, sometimes becoming reddish. Distribution and habitat It is indigenous to the coastal rocks, dunes and plains along the far southern coast of South Africa. This coastal strip extends along the whole of the Eastern Cape coast, but also exten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Dimidiatus
''Carpobrotus dimidiatus'' (commonly known as Natal sourfig) is a succulent perennial of the family Aizoaceae, native to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Description The flowers of ''C. dimidiatus'' range bright pink to mauve. The receptacle is turbiniform to "barrel-shaped" (similar to that of '' C. mellei''), and tapers at the bottom into the pedicel. It is also often strongly and distinctively double-ridged. The top of the ovary is slightly raised in the centre. The leaves are relatively long and thin. The mature leaves are straight (though the very young leaves can be subacinaciform). They have somewhat canaliculate surfaces and are basally connate. In cross-section they can form an approximate equilateral triangle. They are a dull glaucous-green colour. Distribution and habitat Their natural habitat is the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, also stretching south into the Eastern Cape and north into Mozambique. In the south or west of its natural range, it transi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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