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sea figs
Carpobrotus
Carpobrotus, commonly known as pigface, ice plant, sour fig, sea fig, Hottentot fig, and clawberry is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek karpos "fruit" and brotos "edible", referring to its edible fruits.
The genus includes some 12 to 20 accepted species. Most are endemic to South Africa, but there are at least four Australian species and one South American.
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first
sea fig
speciesCarpobrotus edulis
Chilean sea fig
speciesCarpobrotus chilensis
Sally-my-handsome
speciesCarpobrotus acinaciformis
Australian Pig Face
speciesCarpobrotus rossii
Angular Sea-fig
speciesCarpobrotus glaucescens
Delicious Sourfig
speciesCarpobrotus deliciosus
inland pigface
speciesCarpobrotus modestus
Eastern Sourfig
speciesCarpobrotus dimidiatus
Mountain Sourfig
speciesCarpobrotus mellei
coastal pigface
speciesCarpobrotus virescens
Giant Sourfig
speciesCarpobrotus quadrifidus
Lime Sourfig
speciesCarpobrotus muirii
Angled Sea Fig
speciesCarpobrotus aequilaterus
Sourfig acinaciformis × edulis hybrid
hybridCarpobrotus × accedens
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49323.