Ice plant
- Product number: 328800
- Origin: South Africa
- Latin: Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Beautiful leafy vegetable with thick leaves covered with crystal-like droplets, which lie on the leaves like a kind of frost. Sow indoors from March. Plant out under glass or outdoors from May. Planting distance 20 cm. Eat as spinach and purslane or raw in salads.
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Latin: Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Dutch: Ijskruid
Also: Ficoïde Glaciale
English: Ice Plant
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- Flower colour: White flowers
- Origin: South Africa
- Average growth height: 30 to 60 cm
- Annual or perennial: Annual
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- Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
- Ease of cultivation: Easy
- Latin: Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
- Dutch: Ice plant
- Also known as: Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
- English: Ice Plant
