Pale dewplant
Drosanthemum floribundum (Haw.) Schwantes
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 15 cm
- wide
- 61 cm
Aizoaceae
Also called Persian Carpet, Rosy Ice Plant, Pale Dewfig, Purple Carpet, Showy dewflower
Formerly Drosanthemum candens, Drosanthemum torquatum, Mesembryanthemum candens, Mesembryanthemum floribundum, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. Cape Prov.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Desert Tropicals, one source
- Height
- 15 cmRead from Desert Tropicals, one source
- Spread
- 61 cmRead from Desert Tropicals, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Desert Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, violetRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -3.9 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from Desert Tropicals, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Drosanthème florifère
- Spanish
- Planta de hielo rosa
- Russian
- Дрозантемум обильноцветущий
- Danish
- solstråle
- Afrikaans
- Perstapyt
- Italian
- Erba cristallina con fiori abbondanti
- Chinese (China)
- 多花弥生花
- Finnish
- mätäsjääruoho
- Catalan
- Mesem fi
- Turkish
- Acemhalısı
- Welsh
- llysiau gwlithog gwelw
- Chinese
- 花弥生
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Desert Tropicals, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Drosanthemum floribundum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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