Disphyma australe
Horokaka, native ice plant, New Zealand ice plant
Coastal (rarely inland). Mostly on cliff faces, rock stacks, and boulder/cobble beaches, more rarely in saltmarsh and estuaries. Often in petrel scrub on offshore islands, and extending into coastal forest around petrel burrows.
Trailing, succulent herb. Stem terete, glabrous. Short shoots prostrate, rooting freely at nodes. Leaves 3-angled, linear-lanceolate to oblong, acute, often mucronate, tapering to connate base, margins entire, smooth, very rarely with a few papillae towards the distal end of the keel.
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Habitat:
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Suits coastal conditions.
Suits temperate conditions.
Sunlight:
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Prefers full sun.
Application:
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Use in mass specimen landscape plantings.
Use in revegetation plantings.
Use in coastal sand dune revegetation plantings.
Size:
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Mature: diameter 1m x height 0.2m
Planting centres: 0.7m
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Horokaka, native ice plant, New Zealand ice plant
Coastal (rarely inland). Mostly on cliff faces, rock stacks, and boulder/cobble beaches, more rarely in saltmarsh and estuaries. Often in petrel scrub on offshore islands, and extending into coastal forest around petrel burrows.
Trailing, succulent herb. Stem terete, glabrous. Short shoots prostrate, rooting freely at nodes. Leaves 3-angled, linear-lanceolate to oblong, acute, often mucronate, tapering to connate base, margins entire, smooth, very rarely with a few papillae towards the distal end of the keel.
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Habitat:
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Suits coastal conditions.
Suits temperate conditions.
Sunlight:
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Prefers full sun.
Application:
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Use in mass specimen landscape plantings.
Use in revegetation plantings.
Use in coastal sand dune revegetation plantings.
Size:
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Mature: diameter 1m x height 0.2m
Planting centres: 0.7m
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Horokaka, native ice plant, New Zealand ice plant
Coastal (rarely inland). Mostly on cliff faces, rock stacks, and boulder/cobble beaches, more rarely in saltmarsh and estuaries. Often in petrel scrub on offshore islands, and extending into coastal forest around petrel burrows.
Trailing, succulent herb. Stem terete, glabrous. Short shoots prostrate, rooting freely at nodes. Leaves 3-angled, linear-lanceolate to oblong, acute, often mucronate, tapering to connate base, margins entire, smooth, very rarely with a few papillae towards the distal end of the keel.
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Habitat:
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Suits coastal conditions.
Suits temperate conditions.
Sunlight:
–––––––––--
Prefers full sun.
Application:
–––––––––--
Use in mass specimen landscape plantings.
Use in revegetation plantings.
Use in coastal sand dune revegetation plantings.
Size:
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Mature: diameter 1m x height 0.2m
Planting centres: 0.7m
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