Carpobrotus edulis(L.) N.E.Br.

sea fig

WFO wfo-0000588263 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Carpobrotus edulis, photographed by Wendy St. John
fig. a Wendy St. John, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 203971336
Carpobrotus edulis, photographed by Wendy St. John
fig. b Wendy St. John, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203985115
Carpobrotus edulis, photographed by Arnim Littek
fig. c Arnim Littek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205700542
Carpobrotus edulis, photographed by AnimalObserverDeniz321
fig. d AnimalObserverDeniz321, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200283958
Carpobrotus edulis, photographed by Elizabete Marchante
fig. e Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199348666
Carpobrotus edulis, photographed by Elizabete Marchante
fig. f Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199386165
Carpobrotus edulis, photographed by Elizabete Marchante
fig. g Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199394480
Carpobrotus edulis, photographed by Wendy St. John
fig. h Wendy St. John, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203957051

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,777 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,777 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 7 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.

  • Abryanthemum edule (L.) Rothm.
  • Carpobrotus edulis var. chrysophthalmus C.D.Preston & P.D.Sell
  • Carpobrotus edulis var. rubescens Druce
  • Carpubrotus edulis var. rubescens Druce
  • Mesembryanthemum acinaciforme var. flavum L.
  • Mesembryanthemum edule L.
  • Mesembryanthemum edule var. flavum (L.) Moss

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.