Name: Delosperma nubigenum - Yellow Ice Plant Ground Cover
Brand: Delosperma
SKU: pda248
Price: 5.9 EUR
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Delosperma nubigenum

€5,90

Delosperma nubigenum

€5,90

Organic

Sustainable

Locally grown

🪴Standard: 9x9 cm pot

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🌱 Grown without pesticides or UV lamps

Flower Color: Yellow

Preferred Soil Type: Gritty, Well-drained, Sandy

Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: -28°C

Growth Habit: Spreading

Delosperma nubigenum is a drought-tolerant, frost-hardy ground cover that is covered in bright yellow flowers from spring to summer.

The bright green foliage is -like, shaped somewhat like a mouse paw and is very dense, preventing weeds from both germinating and growing.

The flowers are small, daisy-like, and bright yellow, blooming from spring to summer.

Delosperma nubigenum are great for green roofs and sloping terrain - color shifting, frost and drought tolerant and very very independent.

In flower beds, the nectar-rich flowers are a real treat for bees and great to cover up bare areas or drape around a rock garden.

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Floral Morphology

The flowers of Delosperma are solitary or borne near the tips of the shoots.

They open only in bright sunlight and close at night or on dull days.

Each bloom is radially symmetrical, composed of a small calyx of five sepals surrounding a radiant halo of petaloid staminodes.

These colorful, strap-shaped filaments—often magenta, violet, orange, yellow, or white—are modified sterile stamens rather than true petals > an optimization in and of itself one might add.

Delosperma nubigenum has bright yellow flowers.

At the center stands a tuft of fertile stamens encircling the inferior ovary.

When pollination succeeds, the ovary develops into a dry capsule that demonstrates one of the genus’s most remarkable traits: hygrochasy.

What is hygrochasy?

The opening of a fruit (or flower) in reaction to the presence of rain.

This means that the capsule carrying the seeds ONLY opens when it is moistened by the rain - closing again as it dries.

This mechanism ensures that seeds are dispersed precisely when conditions favor germination.

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Ecology

Pollination is usually carried out by bees, flies, and butterflies attracted by the brilliant colors and reflective sheen of the flowers rather than by fragrance.

In their native habitats, Delospermas occupy niches between rocks and in thin soils where water drains rapidly.

Their compact roots and succulent leaves make them perfectly suited to such conditions, and these same adaptations have made them popular garden plants in regions with hot summers and cold winters.