Scientific name Conicosia Rank Genus | Family Aizoaceae Higher classification Stone plants | |
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Similar Conicosia pugioniformis, Stone plants, Juttadinteria, Chasmatophyllum, Cerochlamys | ||
Conicosia garden plants
Conicosia is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family native to southern Africa. They are known commonly as narrow-leafed ice plants. These are relatively short-lived perennials with underground stems and tentacle-shaped, dull-pointed triangular leaves. They bear large tubular flowers often exceeding 10 centimeters in width, with up to 250 fringelike petals arranged in a ring around a center with hundreds of stamens. The fruit is a capsule which opens when it gets wet, slowly releasing the hundreds of tiny seeds as they fall out of its drying flesh.
Species include:
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