The Ice Plant originated in southern Africa but is now widely cilutived for its beautiful sun worshipping and long lasting inflorescence.


The Ice Plant originated in southern Africa but is now widely cilutived for its beautiful sun worshipping and long lasting infloresecence. In some parts of the world they were deliberatly planted as ground cover to protect fragile soils in arid climates


Size: 5000px × 3333px
Location: Scarborough, Yorkshire, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: acicles, adaptation, africa, aizoaceae, anthers, bee, beetles, biennial, birds, bloom, botanical, botany, bulbs, calyx, carpels, colour, common, day, deciduous, evolution, filament, filiform, flora, flower, flowering, gametes, glabrous, grasslands, heads, hue, inflorescence, insects, irregular, iseplants, life, mesembryanthemum, naturalised, nectary, nodiflora, north, opens, ovary, pedicels, petal, pistil, plant, plants, pollen, pollination, pollinator, pretects, propagation, raceme, reproduction, riverine, robust, rough, scape, seasonal, seed, sepal, sepals, sexual, solitary, sothern, stem, structure, style, summer, symbiosis, tepals, uk, umbrel, vegetation, widespread, yorkshire