Heart-leaf ice plant
Mesembryanthemum cordifolium L.f.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 9 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Aizoaceae
Also called Heart leaf ice plant, Baby sun-rose, Heartleaf Sunfig, Brack Mesemb, Strawberry Mesemb
Formerly Aptenia cordifolia, Litocarpus cordifolius, Mesembryanthemum tetrasepalum
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
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
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Cape Prov. to KwaZulu-NatalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Gardenia, one source
- Height
- 8 cm to 10 cmRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from Gardenia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia and Gardenia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Rocío africano
- Portuguese
- rosinha-do-sol
- Estonian
- südajalehine apteenia
- French
- Ficoide glaciale, Ficoïde à feuilles en coeur
- German
- Herzblättrige Mittagsblume
- Dutch
- Sodaplant
- Czech
- apténie srdčitolistá
- Arabic
- نبات الثلج
- Russian
- Мезембриантемум хрустальный, Мезембриантемум сердцелистный
- Swedish
- hjärtreva
- Japanese
- ハナヅルソウ, アメリカハナヅルソウ
- Chinese (China)
- 心叶日中花, 花蔓草
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
- Gardenia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Mesembryanthemum cordifolium (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.