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Carpobrotus glaucescens, commonly known as pigface or iceplant, [2] 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 (6 ft 7 in) long, glaucous leaves, daisy-like flowers with 100 to 150 light purple to deep pinkish-purple, petal-like staminodes and red to purple fruit.
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]
Leaves can reach 41 centimetres (16 inches) in length. Each leaf is entire. Leaves are medium green and smooth, with a distinct odor that many characterize as unpleasant. Flowers: The flowers have 5 regular parts with upright stamens and are up to 5 millimetres (1 ⁄ 4 in) wide. They have white petal-like sepals without true petals, on white ...
The leaves are simple, narrowly oblanceolate to linear, and borne in whorls of six to eight. [10] [11] [12] Cleavers have tiny, star-shaped, white to greenish flowers, which emerge from early spring to summer. The flowers are clustered in groups of two or three, and are borne out of the leaf axils. [13] The corolla bears 4 petals. [14]
The flowers are yellow, 2.5–4 cm in diameter and produced in large compound raceme up to 20 cm long. Pollens are approximately 50 microns in size. The fruit is a pod 5–10 cm long and 2.5 cm broad, red at first, ripening black, and containing one to four seeds. Trees begin to flower after about four years. [4] [5]
A close-up of box huckleberry's flowers. Box huckleberry is a low shrub, growing 6 to 8 inches (150 to 200 mm) tall. [4] Its leaves resemble those of boxwood (hence its name). [5] The leaves are about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long and oval-shaped. [6] They are glossy and minutely toothed, [5] turning red in winter. [4]
When the seedlings reach 2 inches tall, ... the eastern U.S. and has silver-greenish leaves that produce light purple flowers. This variety is a favorite if you are growing mint to make herbal tea ...
The flowers are arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The spikes contain 5 to 18 groups of flowers in threes and are up to 40 mm (2 in) in diameter and 20–50 mm (0.8–2 in) long. The petals are about 3 mm (0.1 in) long and fall off as the flower ages.