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Carpobrotus
Family:
Aizoaceae
Daniel Passarini
FNA
Resources
Nancy J. Vivrette in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Subshrubs,
succulent, glabrous.
Roots
fibrous.
Stems
trailing, mat-forming, 5-30 dm; rooting at nodes; inflorescence branches ascending.
Leaves
cauline, opposite, slightly connate basally, sessile, those of each pair equal; stipules absent; blade straight or curved, rounded-triangular to sharply 3-angled in cross section, thick, fleshy, margins entire or dentate.
Inflorescences
terminal or axillary, flowers solitary; bracts absent or 2, leaflike; pedicel [absent or 1-]10-60[-100] mm, erect.
Flowers
showy, tubular, 3-10[-15] cm diam.; calyx lobes 4-5, unequal, 2 larger ± opposite, sometimes leaflike, 2-3 inner, smaller, with expanded membranous margins; petals (including petaloid staminodia) to 250, distinct, magenta, pink, yellow, cream, or white; nectary absent; stamens to 600, erect; pistil 8-12[-25]-carpellate; ovary inferior, 8-12[-25]-loculed; placentation parietal; style absent; stigmas 8-12[-25], radiate, linear, plumose.
Fruits
berries, fleshy, edible, indehiscent; valves absent.
Seeds
to 1000, brown, obovoid, compressed, shiny, slightly tuberculate; arils absent. Species of
Carpobrotus
naturalize vegetatively and from seed.
Carpobrotus chilensis
Images
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Carpobrotus edulis
Map not
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