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Pigface Purple flowers and buds
taken at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens.
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A view to Bournda Island from Tura Beach North. The dunes here very windswept but the pigface growing well, flowering and helping to protect the dunes. The pigface similar to elsewhere in the world, I think but the south coast botanical name is perhaps, Carpobrotus glaucescens.
Carpobrotus, commonly known as pigface, ice plant, sour fig, and Hottentot fig, is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers. The name refers to the edible fruits. It comes from the Ancient Greek karpos "fruit" and brotos "edible". Wikipedia
Pigface come in a wonderful variety of colours and make a beautiful display; low maintenance drought resistant. my kind of flowers.
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.
These have been growing in my wheelbarrow garden for a while now and suddenly decided to bloom on the first day of Spring.
Carpobrotus edulis is a ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genus Carpobrotus, native to South Africa. It is also known as Hottentot-fig (though this nickname is considered a racist term), ice plant, highway ice plant, or pigface, and in South Africa as the sour fig (suurvy).
It was previously classified in Mesembryanthemum and is sometimes referred to by this name: Mesembryanthemum edule.
Taken from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpobrotus_edulis
Carpobrotus, commonly known as pigface, ice plant, sour fig, and Hottentot fig, is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers.
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Yellow Pig Face
Carpobrotus Edulis
Ground-Creeping Plant
Carpobrotus edulis is a ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genus Carpobrotus, native to South Africa. It is also known as Hottentot-fig, ice plant, highway ice plant or pigface and in South Africa as the sour fig.
A pink Carpobrotus bud bursts open to start the new season.
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. Wikipedia
Ancient rusty wire fence at the Minda Dunes, now almost buried in sand and pigface succulent groundcover. Its job to preserve the dunes by preventing erosion has been well done.
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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. Wikipedia
Listed as an invasive plant species in Portugal, this perennial creeping subshrub, with very fleshy leaves has large pink, white or yellow flowers. (invasoras.pt)
Ice plant (Carpobrotus edulis) is a low-growing, mat forming perennial with fleshy, succulent, 3-angled leaves (7-12 cm long) and 2-angled stems. Many-petalled yellow flowers (<10 cm diameter, mostly Oct-Feb) that turn pinkish-orange with age develop into fleshy fruit containing seed.
Originally from South Africa, it is in the Aizoaceae (fig-marigold) family and is also known as Sour-Fig, Pigface, hottentot fig, Mesembryanthemum edule
My wheelbarrow garden is looking lovely at the moment. I think the pink flowers are a type of Pigface (Carpobrotus).
Pigface (Carpobrotus rossii)
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This flower has a number of common names, Pigface being the most used here in Australia.
Carpobrotus è un genere di piante appartenente alla famiglia delle Aizoaceae, il cui nome deriva dal greco karpos (frutto) e brotos (edule). Volgarmente indicato come fico degli Ottentotti, è conosciuto in Italia anche con il nome unghia di strega
Carpobrotus, commonly known as pigface, ice plant, and Hottentot plant, is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers. The name refers to the edible fruits. It comes from the Ancient Greek karpos ("fruit") and brota ("edible").
The genus includes some 12 to 20 accepted species. Most are South African, endemics, but there are at least four Australian species and one South American.
fallen feathers resting on an Australian Pigface plant.
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murray river floodwaters are slowly encroaching on a white dune system in cadell, south australia
the plentiful flowering herb is poached-egg daisy (Polycalymma stuartii), and the succulent groundcover is inland pigface (Carprobrotus modestus)
A most unfortunate name for this succulent flower. They grow over the road where there is no bush, just sand.
murray river floodwaters are slowly encroaching on a white dune system in cadell, south australia
the plentiful flowering herb is poached-egg daisy (Polycalymma stuartii), and the succulent groundcover is inland pigface (Carprobrotus modestus)
Carpobrotus, commonly known as pigface, ice plant, sour fig, and Hottentot fig, is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers. The name refers to its edible fruits, “karpos” meaning fruit and “brota” meaning edible in Greek. Common names include ice plant and pigface, so called because the flower resembles a pig's face. I personally don't see that myself, even when looking at the yellow variety of pigface!
Spring has finally spung in Melbourne, and with a few mild and sunny days and some recent heavy rain, the gardens of Melbourne's suburbs have awoken from their winter slumbers and burst into an array of beautiful colours in many different floral forms.
An artistic take on some Magenta Pigface photographed at Blue Lotus Water Gardens, Yarra Junction.
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Just before we start to make the journey back from Mackay, in real time, our Pigfaces which were on death row have flowered at last and managed a reprieve. Planted over twelve months ago, the plants themselves grew well, mostly anyway, but not a flower in sight. A family Council judged that if they didn't flower as promised this spring, they were in for the chop. We did warn them. A verbal dressing down.
This has obviously worked as we now have a bed of some very pretty white and purple flowers. But the warning is still there, yellow, orange and red need to do some serious stepping up or they will get the kangaroo paw right where it hurts most!
Brisbane, Queensland.
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I was hanging to rake through the piles of accumulated seaweed washed ashore along the supra littoral zone of Talia Beach when we got there. It is a magnificent beach on the western side of the Eyre Peninsula. My family got to go for a swim and build a sand castle while I raked the sand beneath the seaweed in the hope of turning up the specialized, beach-dwelling Bight Slider Skink (Lerista arenicola). It took a fair bit of effort to rake up this heavily gravid adult female. I couldn't believe how pretty she was, and I really loved the yellowish tints through her tail and limbs.
I quickly assembled the camera gear and took this image of her. She posed really well and I was happy with the result. Given her delicate condition, I quickly returned her to the patch of sand where I'd found her, after carefully rearranging the pile of seaweed I had moved in order to get to the sand in the first place.
It was kick ass, because I got to meet and examine this intriguing species that was new to me and then go swimming and hang out with my family in holiday mode just a few metres (yards) away. I'll not ever forget it.
The mesmerizing centre of an angular pigface flower.
Carpobrotus glaucescens is a prostrate, creeping succulent that has long trailing stems. It has thick, fleshy, smooth leaves 3.5 to 10 cm x 1 to 1.5 cm, which are triangular in cross section. The flowers are initially daisy-like in appearance, 5 cm in diameter. There can be up to 300 stamens and ten styles.
This species is found growing naturally in coastal areas on sand dunes along the NSW and Queensland coast.
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A foggy morning down at Lyrup Flats in the Riverland. a small spit of land jutting out into the water with some type of succulent/pigface growing.
Carpobrotus, commonly known as pigface, ice plant, sour fig, and Hottentot fig, is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers. The name refers to its edible fruits, “karpos” meaning fruit and “brota” meaning edible in Greek. Common names include ice plant and pigface, so called because the flower resembles a pig's face. I personally don't see that myself, even when looking at the yellow variety of pigface!
Spring has finally spung in Melbourne, and with a few mild and sunny days and some recent heavy rain, the gardens of Melbourne's suburbs have awoken from their winter slumbers and burst into an array of beautiful colours in many different floral forms.
Heart Morass is a large wetland located at the confluence of the Thomson and Latrobe rivers near Sale, Victoria, Australia
Mesembryanthemum.
[ Lampranthus ] or
[ Pigface Orange ]
This collage has two photos of the Mesembryanthemum
flower, budding and not quite opened, and fully opened.
Blooming from Spring to Summer.
The orange flowers are
daisy-like.
Totally unplanned; here is another fine example of Australian bush tucker. Yes took this shot today at lunch time while the bright spring sun was out. Tomorrow it’ll be raining so I’m glad I caught it.
Bright purple native groundcover flowering succulent familiar to anyone in coastal Queensland. Excellent for rockeries, dry poor soils, waterwise gardens, stabilising soils. Spreads while keeping low, great colourful groundcover for xeriscaping. Fruits and leaves are edible - "carpobrotus" means edible fruit.