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Ice Plants

Disphyma

Ice Plants
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 3.0

Disphyma is a genus of prostrate, succulent annual or short-lived perennial plants from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, with daisy-like flowers. The commonly grown members are coastal groundcovers such as the Round-leaved ice plant (Disphyma crassifolium), best grown in full sun with sharp drainage.

Family
Aizoaceae (Ice-plant family)
Grows as
Succulent, Annual, Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, very well-drained soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect below about 0 °C.
How easy
Easy

About

Disphyma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae that are native to New Zealand, Australia, and the Cape Provinces of South Africa. Plants in this genus are prostrate, annual or short-lived perennial shrubs with succulent leaves and daisy-like flowers arranged singly on the ends of shoots with petal-like staminodes, many stamens and usually five styles.

Other Disphyma plants

Disphyma australe · Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum · Purple Dewplant · Disphyma dunsdonii · Chatham Island Ice Plant

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Disphyma by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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