Carpobrotus edulis, commonly known as the sour fig or Hottentot fig, is a succulent plant native to South Africa. This hardy perennial is known for its fleshy leaves, vibrant flowers, and especially ...

Montserrat Vila, Carla M. D'Antonio, Fruit Choice and Seed Dispersal of Invasive vs. Noninvasive Carpobrotus (Aizoaceae) in Coastal California, Ecology, Vol. 79, No ...

The plant Carpobrotus edulis, originally from South Africa, is an exotic and invasive species which is nowadays distributed around several continents.

The botanical name for this plant is Carpobrotus edulis, a member of the Fig-Marigold plant family, the Aizoaceae, which is a large family of flowering plants including 135 genera and about 1,800 ...

A: The plant you are looking for is called highway iceplant (Carpobrotus edulis). It has thick, three-sided leaves and large yellow or pink flowers.

(Courtesy Tom Karwin) Highway ice plant (Carpobrotus edulis). The most common blossom color is pale yellow. Some blossoms are pink or in a related species (C. chilensis), bright magenta.

Invasives come in all shapes and sizes, such as the ubiquitous highway ice plant (Carpobrotus edulis) and certain types of seeding tall grasses, such as pampas grass, (Cortaderia selloana).

A surfer slides past Lighthouse Point on a recent morning as purple ice plant flowers hang from the cliff. The ice plant (Carpobrotus edulis) is a coastal succulent shrub native to South Africa ...

Fort Pezeries was the site of a friendly task force operation on Saturday 12 April when Guernsey Conservation Volunteers took on an unwanted alien. Carpobrotus edulis (Hottentot, or Sour fig) is ...

4. Data from two comparative studies and a neighbour-removal experiment revealed that Ehrharta frequently escaped herbivores by associating with three neighbouring plant species - an exotic perennial ...