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Titanopsis calcarea
Titanopsis calcarea, the sheep's tongue or jewel plant, is a small, slow-growing South African succulent in the ice-plant family whose leaves are flattened and mimic pebbles. It is grown as a rock-garden or collector's plant and needs strong light, very sparing water and fast-draining mineral soil.
Titanopsis calcarea, commonly called the jewel plant, is a species of ice plant (family Aizoaceae) in the genus Titanopsis, native to the Cape Provinces, Free State, and Northern Provinces of South Africa. A succulent, it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental. In nature usually only the tips of the leaves would rise above the sand or dust. The tip would be covered with white, gray or pink irregular dots, to match local pebbles.
German-South African botanist Rudolf Marloth described the species in 1926 as Mesembryanthemum calcareum, before Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes placed it in the genus Titanopsis.
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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.
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.
