Guernsey Donkey. I am still puzzled...2 separate plants.... both very similar to be found on Guernsey... but we still don't have the true botanical, scientific, accurate name????? You refer to all as Mesembryanthemum. I wonder if it is all to do with confusion re blinking common names./change of names. .......................................................................................................... 1. Carpobrotus edulis..syn Mesembryanthemum edule or edulis...many common names including hottentot fig,
Quote wiki....."Carpobrotus edulis is a ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genusCarpobrotus, native to South Africa. It is also known as Hottentot-fig, ice plant, highway ice plant or pigface and in South Africa as the sour fig."
It was previously classified in Mesembryanthemum and is sometimes referred to by this name: Mesembryanthemum edule.
Proved to be rampant on the island as proved in the links in my earlier post..re invasive/stamp
........................................................................... Could the other one be .....
2. Cleretum bellidiforme.........Used to be called Mesembryanthemum criniflorum. and Dorotheanthus bellidiformis I used to love this and grow it ...another common name was Livingston daisy.
Quote wiki...."It is a low-growing succulentannual
growing to 25 cm (10 in), and cultivated for its iridescent,
many-petalled, daisy-like blooms in shades of white, yellow, orange,
cream, pink and crimson. In temperate areas it is popularly grown as a half-hardy annual, and lends itself to mass plantings or as edging plants in summer bedding schemes in parks and gardens. "
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I am still puzzled...2 separate plants.... both very similar to be found on Guernsey...
but we still don't have the true botanical, scientific, accurate name?????
You refer to all as Mesembryanthemum.
I wonder if it is all to do with confusion re blinking common names./change of names.
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1. Carpobrotus edulis..syn Mesembryanthemum edule or edulis...many common names including hottentot fig,
Quote wiki....."Carpobrotus edulis is a ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genus Carpobrotus, native to South Africa. It is also known as Hottentot-fig, ice plant, highway ice plant or pigface and in South Africa as the sour fig."
It was previously classified in Mesembryanthemum and is sometimes referred to by this name: Mesembryanthemum edule.
Proved to be rampant on the island as proved in the links in my earlier post..re invasive/stampCould the other one be .....
2. Cleretum bellidiforme.........Used to be called Mesembryanthemum criniflorum.
and Dorotheanthus bellidiformis
I used to love this and grow it ...another common name was Livingston daisy.
Quote wiki...."It is a low-growing succulent annual growing to 25 cm (10 in), and cultivated for its iridescent, many-petalled, daisy-like blooms in shades of white, yellow, orange, cream, pink and crimson. In temperate areas it is popularly grown as a half-hardy annual, and lends itself to mass plantings or as edging plants in summer bedding schemes in parks and gardens. "
https://www.google.com/search?q=Mesembryanthemum+criniflorum&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQ2JWD5crkAhVRt3EKHU05CIkQ_AUIESgB&biw=1920&bih=944
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