Disphyma australe

New Zealand Ice Plant

Kingdom: Plantae > Phylum: Tracheophyta > Subphylum: Angiospermae > Class: Magnoliopsida > Order: Caryophyllales > Family: Aizoaceae > Subfamily: Ruschioideae > Tribe: Ruschieae > Genus: Disphyma > Species: Disphyma australe

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NZPCN Disphyma australe subsp. australe

NZ Flora Disphyma australe subsp. australe

Notes on the photo

In the photo above the plant is the flower and the underlying rounded leaves, not the broad leaves.

When I was a kid these were…

cbeem Fri, 24/03/2023 - 11:40

When I was a kid these were called Mesembryanthemum.

Observations - Kahurangi Point - Mōkihinui

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Read more about Up close and personal - Metrosideros fulgens
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Metrosideros fulgens is often known as Scarlet Rātā Vine. it is everywhere here late summer in to autumn.

It will climb to the top of tall trees, and sometimes you can see it flowering all the way up the sides of the tall Rimu on the Valley track. Really spectacular.

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If there's one thing that Kiwis love it's a good sarcastic name. This one is not really a grass, it's a sedge, but it looks like grass so the wide variety of these hook sedges in New Zealand are called "Bastard grasses".