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N.E.Br. 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 karpos "fruit" and brotos "edible", referring to its edible fruits. [1] The genus includes some 12 to 20 accepted species.
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. [citation needed] 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 Aizoaceae (/ eɪzoʊˈeɪsiːˌiː, - siˌaɪ /), or fig-marigold family, is a large family of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing 135 genera and about 1800 species. [2] Several genera are commonly known as ' ice plants ' or ' carpet weeds '. The Aizoaceae are also referred to as vygies in South Africa and New Zealand.
Malephora crocea. (Jacq.) Schwant. Malephora crocea is a species of succulent perennial flowering plant in the ice plant family known by the common names ' coppery mesemb ' and ' red ice plant '. It is native to Southern Africa but is grown in many other regions of the world, primarily as an ornamental plant, but also as a fireproof groundcover.
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (the common, ' crystalline ' or ' crystallinum ' iceplant, or simply ' iceplant ') is a species of annual / perennial, succulent flowering plant in the "mesemb" genus of the Aizoaceae family. A true Mediterranean-climate grower, this prostrate groundcover is native to coastal North Africa and Sinai, the Levant and ...
Drosanthemum floribundum, commonly known as rodondo creeper, pale dewplant, or dew-flower, is a succulent plant in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae.The species is native to the Eastern Cape in South Africa and is naturalised in Portugal and the states of South Australia, Western Australia, and Victoria in Australia, [1] [2] as well as Pacific Grove, California [3] where it is called the Magic ...
Conicosia pugioniformis is a species of succulent plant in the ice plant family known by the common names narrow-leaved iceplant and pigroot. It is native to South Africa and it is known on other continents as an introduced species and sometimes a noxious weed. It is an invasive species on the Central Coast of California, where it is a minor ...
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 ...