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Ice Plant
The common name Ice Plant refers to Carpobrotus edulis, a creeping, mat-forming succulent species, and member of the Stone Plant family Aizoaceae, one of about 30 species in the genus Carpobrotus. It is also known as the Highway Ice Plant, Pigface or Hottentot Fig and in South Africa as the Sour Fig, on account of its edible fruit. It was previously classified in genus Mesembryanthemum and is sometimes referred to by this name.
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ice plant
Noun
1. Old World annual widely naturalized in warm regions having white flowers and fleshy foliage covered with hairs that resemble ice
(synonym) icicle plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
(hypernym) fig marigold, pebble plant



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Ice plant

A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass.
  

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