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Pigface or iceplant
Carpobrotus glaucescens
About
Carpobrotus glaucescens, commonly known as pigface or iceplant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Aizoaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a succulent, prostrate plant with stems up to 2 m 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. It usually only grows very close to the sea.
- Family
- Aizoaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Carpobrotus glaucescens
- Slug
- carpobrotus-glaucescens
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Aizoaceae
- Genus
- Carpobrotus
- Species
- glaucescens
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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