Coppery mesemb
Malephora crocea (Jacq.) Schwantes
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 20 cm
- wide
- —
Aizoaceae
Also called Coppery Mesembryanthemum, Coppery ice plant, Copper Fingerfig, Fingerkanna, Copper Vygie
Formerly Crocanthus croceus, Hymenocyclus croceus, Mesembryanthemum croceum
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
- NW. Cape Prov.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 20 cmRead from Desert Tropicals, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, redRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- French
- Maléphora safrané, Ficoïde safranée
- Spanish
- Planta de hielo de cobre
- Japanese
- 宝華
- Chinese
- 銅指姬神刀, 红花蔓舌草
- Chinese (China)
- 红花蔓舌草
- Russian
- Малефора шафрановая
- Hebrew
- מלפורה ארגמנית
- Slovak
- malefora šafranová
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
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Desert Tropicals, read 2026-10-26, 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: Malephora crocea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.