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Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Crystalline Iceplant
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 1215 3916 (2015-12-29)

Copyright © 2015 Wynn Anderson

 
INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
  • date of photo  Feb 24, 2015
  • latitude 30.21011   longitude 112.71245     View on Google Maps.
  • location   construction pullout on new coastal highway 23 miles north from Puerto Libertad, 9 miles south of junction with Caborca-Puerto Lobos hiway (Mcp. Caborca, Sonora, Mexico)
  • family Aizoaceae
  • plant community   Sonoran Desert coastal scrub at 896' elev.
  • notes   roadside on disturbed granitic soil. Note the transparent, enlarged bladder-like membranous epidermal cells which serve both to store extra moisture and contain extruded toxic salts
  • keywords: SON, Sonoran Desert
  • contributor's ID #  SON 2308a
  • photo category: Plant - annual/perennial

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Crystalline Iceplant (photographer)
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