The ice flora is native to South Africa and is now naturalise to many tender climate regions across the globe . The plant is known around the world by a motley of descriptive name , including " main road ice plant life , " " pigface , " and " glum fig works , " because of its edible fruit . The chalk flora gets its name from the little , clear engorged hairs on the open of the leaves that seem like quick-frozen droplets of urine .
Description
The ice works is a low - produce , mat - forming succulent plant which can grow up to into mat up to 165 foot in diameter . The folio are short and finger like , and get over in hair like projections that look like frigid droplets of water . The plant produces small flush in shades of yellow or pinkish . The flowers have lean , wispy petal smother a protruding nerve center .
Location
The ice plant grows by nature in Australia , California , Arizona , and along the Mediterranean . The plant life was brought to the United States from Africa , for the purpose of stabilize the earth around newly - lain railway system caterpillar track . thousand of Accho of ice plant were establish in California until the former seventies . Along the Mediterranean , some portion of the coastline are wholly cover with ice plant .
Needs
As with all other succulents , the ice plant requires very minuscule urine . auxiliary watering are not necessary ; ice industrial plant survive on rain water , even if rains are few and far between . frosting works favor opened , gay locales with plenty of ventilation . The industrial plant can not tolerate Robert Lee Frost , and dies back after exposure to freeze weather .
Invasiveness
Ice plants mature in the wild in Australia , California , Arizona , and in towns along the Mediterranean slide . The plant spreads cursorily , and endanger other native botany . Because the ice plant originate promptly and thickly , aboriginal vegetation can not vie with the ice flora . Ice plant is take an invading weed in these country , and many areas have organized efforts to remove the plants from public owned lands .
Propagation
The ice flora is propagate with cuttings or seeds . The fact that it propagates so easy from seed do its invasiveness almost impossible to ensure . The plant ’s edible fruit is eaten by wildlife , whose dejection then scatter the seeds to other areas where the seeds take theme and develop into other plants .
