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Several genera are commonly known as 'ice plants' or 'carpet weeds'. The Aizoaceae are also referred to as vygies in South Africa . Some of the unusual Southern African genera—such as Conophytum , Lithops , Titanopsis and Pleiospilos (among others)—resemble gemstones, rocks or pebbles, and are sometimes referred to as ' living stones ' or ...
A nunatak is a type of glacial refugium that is located on the snow-free, exposed peaks of mountains, which lie above the ice sheet during glaciations. [3] The identification of ‘diversity hotspots’ in areas, which should have been migration regions during major glacial episodes, is evidence for nunatak glacial refugia. [ 14 ]
The plant usually uses C3 carbon fixation, but when it becomes water- or salt-stressed, it is able to switch to Crassulacean acid metabolism. [4] Like many salt-tolerant plants, M. crystallinum accumulates salt throughout its life, in a gradient from the roots to the shoots, with the highest concentration stored in epidermal bladder cells.
Ice plant, sour fig: Carpobrotus edulis: South Africa and many zones with a similar climate, including Australia, California and the Mediterranean: Figs (May to July); edible raw [38] Fat-hen, wild spinach: Chenopodium album: Worldwide in soils rich in nitrogen, especially on wasteland: Leaves and young shoots; edible raw or prepared as a green ...
The ice plant forms large monospecific zones. Although the ice plant may have arrived by ship as early as the 16th century, [23] [24] C. edulis was actively introduced in the early 1900s to stabilize dunes [23] and soil along railroad tracks; it was later put to use by Caltrans for ground cover along freeway embankments. [23]
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 .
Heads up, Rattlesnake Island. Vanilla Ice is moving in. Rapper, actor, construction contractor and television host Robert Van Winkle, who performs under the name Vanilla Ice, has bought two homes ...
Clark Reservation State Park is a state park in Onondaga County, New York. The park is in Jamesville, NY, in the Town of DeWitt, south of Syracuse. It was the site of a large waterfall formed by melting glacial ice at the end of the last Ice Age; the plunge basin at the base of the old falls is now a small lake. James Macfarlane described the ...