Disphyma crassifolium
A creeping, mat-forming ice plant of southern Australian and South African coasts, with fat cylindrical leaves and bright magenta daisy-like flowers in spring. It grows in salt marshes, dune hollows and sea cliffs in full sun and copes with salt spray. It is easy in a sunny, well-drained pot or rockery and needs only modest winter warmth.
Where it grows wild
Coastal salt marshes, the landward edges of mangroves and saltpans, dunes and cliff tops, plus some inland saline flats. It spreads as low mats over sand and saline mud.
Almost always near sea level. The few records with an elevation span 1-369 m, median 19 m.
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