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ice plant
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ice plant, low, fleshy plant (Cryophytum crystalinum) of warm, dry, barren regions. It is cultivated chiefly as a curiosity because of its leaves, densely coated with small, glistening, bladder-shaped hairs. The ice plant and many other related herbs (e.g., New Zealand spinach), often with fantastic shapes, are sometimes combined in the genus Mesembryanthemum. They grow in abundance in South Africa, whence many had been introduced to European botanical gardens by 1600. Ice plants are classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta (măg'nōlēŏf`ətə)
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, class Magnoliopsida, order Caryophyllales, family Aizoaceae.


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Ivy and iceplant eventually become havens for rats, and star jasmine sends up
Chris Adams spent most of the afternoon fighting traffic to stick an iceplant to fakie off the pillar, and earned a third place trophy handcrafted by Mr Dykma.
In Woodland Hills, I saw ``Red Apple'' iceplant disappear from one planter bed after another during several cold nights in January and, in Sylmar, ivy geraniums turned black following a frost.
 
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