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Carpobrotus quadrifidus
Carpobrotus quadrifidus (commonly known as west-coast sourfig, Weskus suurvy) is a succulent perennial of the family Aizoaceae, native to the west coast of South Africa.
A possible synonym is Carpobrotus sauerae.
Their natural habitat is the low-lying coastal strip along the west coast of South Africa, from as far south as Melkbosstrand in Cape Town, northwards along the coast through Saldanha Bay and Langebaan where it is extremely common, to the coast around Lambert's Bay, with further sporadic populations even further north in the Northern Cape province.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carpobrotus quadrifidus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
