Aizoaceae
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The Aizoaceae, or fig-marigold family, are a large family of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing 135 genera and about 1,800 species. Several genera are commonly named ice plants or carpet weeds
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Mesembryanthemum guerichianum seedling, showing the epidermal bladder cells that inspired the name "ice plant"
Mesembryanthemum cordifolium or rock rose
Carpobrotus edulis, an "ice plant"
Carpobrotus edulis
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Carpobrotus edulis is a creeping plant with succulent leaves in the fig-marigold family Aizoaceae, native to South Africa. Its common names include hottentot-fig, sour fig, ice plant, highway ice plan
Aizoaceae
…Some species are edible, including: Carpobrotus edulis (Hottentot fig, highway ice plant) has edible leaves and fruit. Mesembryanthemum crystallinum has edible leaves…
Hottentot Fig Flowering
Found at Cape Angela in Bizerte, Tunisia, near the Mediterranean Sea
Example of an area completely covered with ice plant on a French Mediterranean island, Bagaud island, in the Port-Cros National Park
The ice plant forms large monogeneric zones along the California coast. Here Carpobratus edulis (yellow flowers) and Carpobrotus chilensis (magenta flowers) grow in separate patches