Plate 1 figs. a–d
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Flowering n = 428 observations
Peak flowering in May, from 428 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.
Also published as 8 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Cryophytum crystallinum (L.) N.E.Br.
- Cryophytum nanum N.E.Br.
- Cryophytum parvum L.Bolus
- Gasoul crystallinum (L.) Rothm.
- Mesembryanthemum breve L.Bolus
- Mesembryanthemum glaciale Haw.
- Pentacoilanthus crystallinus (L.) Rappa & Camarrone
- Perapentacoilanthus crystallinus (L.) Rappa & Camarrone
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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