Family

Ice Plant Family

Aizoaceae

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Explore the Aizoaceae family, featuring unique succulent species like Living Stones and Ice Plants.

A large family of succulent herbs and shrubs, predominantly native to southern Africa.¹

References

Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14. Accessed: 2026-05-21. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/ ↩

Child Taxa

TribeRuschieaeRuschieae

Plants In This Group

Lithops lesliei

Lithops lesliei is a small Aizoaceae species whose patterned fused leaf pair gives it a stone like appearance. Its yearly cycle is read through formation of a new leaf pair, absorption of the old pair, flowering and dormancy.