Titanopsis calcarea, commonly called the jewel plant, is a species of ice plant in the genus Titanopsis, native to South Africa.[2] A succulent, it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.[3]
Titanopsis calcarea | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Aizoaceae |
Genus: | Titanopsis |
Species: | T. calcarea |
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Titanopsis calcarea | |
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German-South African botanist Rudolf Marloth described the species in 1926 as Mesembryanthemum calcareum, before Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes placed it in the genus Titanopsis.
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Titanopsis calcarea |
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Mesembryanthemum calcareum |
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