At least, it LOOKS like a Red Spike Iceplant as far as its leaves & stems go, which this is a picture of: http://www.amwua.org/photo_detail.html?recordid=581
The flowers are yellow instead of red, though . . . and I haven't been able to find any picture or info about it on the Internet.
A friend gave me some cuttings today, and I want to learn how best to care for them, and where to plant them, assuming I get them to root.
Thank You!
What's the name of a Red Spike Iceplant with YELLOW flowers?
Is it maybe Delosperma? http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/248031/
No, Delosperma has three-sided grey-green leaves (I have yellow-flowered Delosperma, too).
This --and the yellow flowered plant I'm trying to identify-- have long, smooth, very lightly bluish, light-grey, rounded leaves . . . like in the picture on the site I posted . . . This is the leaf description froom the site I give below:
*Leaves: Evergreen, usually green, blue-green and fleshy.
Opposite and slightly united basally, semi-hemispherical to cylindrical, smooth 1.5" long.*
However, this site has the exact type of Red Spike that I have, with yellow centers instead of red:
*Cephalophyllum speciosum*
http://www.delange.org/IcePlantRedSpike/IcePlantRedSpike.htm
(The one I first posted a link to its picture appears to be a hybrid.)
I thought I had once read that Red Spike from seed sometimes give all-yellow flowers, but am beginning to think I was reading about Red Apple, instead. However, I know what I'm looking for exists, as I have possession of some cuttings from it with flowers on, & saw/touched the parent plant.
So, still looking . . .
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Hope you are able to find it.
Someone on another site appears to have come up with the answer:
"Cephalophyllum frutescens"
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Aizoaceae/Cephalophyllum_frutescens.html
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/273513/
For some reason when I was searching for it, it 'eluded me'!
(I *think* this is what it is, but the cuttings I have are pretty wilted, and I only saw the healthy plant for a few seconds. So, time will tell, I guess, if the cuttings survive. May need to get new ones when the weather get cooler, though.)