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Conicosia
Also called Conefigs
Conicosia is a small genus of succulent ice-plant relatives from the Cape Provinces of South Africa, with short-lived perennials that bear large, showy flowers. Grow them in very free-draining soil with full sun and sparing water.
Conicosia is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family native to the Cape Provinces of South 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.
Two species are accepted.
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