R. mesembryanthemoides (Mesembryanthemum-like); Bot. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
The ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) is native to South Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Rocky and sand plants include Mesembryanthemum gaussenii (E), Pseuderucaria clavata and Acacia scorpioides. From Wordnik.com. [Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria] Reference
For DP Robin, Lithops, Conophytums and several other families of similar-looking plants all belong to the Mesembryanthemum family, along with familiar garden plant like Hottentot Fig. From Wordnik.com. [Conophytum bachelorum - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Caragana appears at about 10,000 feet, a Tamerioid of large stature in abundance, Asphodelus, not as I thought a Mesembryanthemum, but a beautiful and very distinct species; see Catalogue for other plants. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Thus, in R. Cassytha, the long, fleshy, whip-like branches and white berries are very similar to Mistletoe; R. salicornoides, with its leafless, knotty branches, resembles a Salicornia, or Marsh Samphire; another is like a Mesembryanthemum; and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
At last, however, the ordeal was accomplished; and all their goods and chattels and new acquisitions, especially the aquarium and its various occupants, that terrible Mesembryanthemum included, being properly packed up and labelled, behold the party one fine morning at the railway-station on their way to London as soon as the train should start!. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
The principal inducement to the natives to frequent the small plains where we were encamped, appeared to be, to get the fruit of the Mesembryanthemum, which grew there in immense quantities, and was now just ripe; whilst the scrub, by which these plains were surrounded, seemed to be alive with wallabie, adding variety to abundance in the article of food. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1] Reference
One of this family is edible (‘Mesembryanthemum edule’); another possesses a tuberous root, which may be eaten raw; and all are furnished with thick, fleshy leaves, having pores capable of imbibing and retaining moisture from a very dry atmosphere and soil, so that, if a leaf is broken during a period of the greatest drought, it shows abundant circulating sap. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
For some days past, we had been travelling through a country in which the Mesembryanthemum grows in the greatest abundance, it was in full fruit, and constituted a favourite and important article of food among the native population; all our party partook of it freely, and found it both a wholesome and an agreeable addition to their fare; when ripe, the fruit is rich, juicy, and sweet, of about the size of a gooseberry. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1] Reference
Of this the Stonecrops, Mesembryanthemum, etc., are familiar instances. From Wordnik.com. [The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In] Reference
This Mesembryanthemum is one of the taller and more upright species, as well as the earliest in point of flowering, producing its blossoms from. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed] Reference
Mesembryanthemum mice injury mignonette mignonette vine mikania miscanthus miscible oils mock orange mock orange of South moisture, saving moles. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
It causes the flowers of the bedding-out Mesembryanthemum and Drosera to close, but it has not this effect on Gazania and the daisy, so I can make out no rule. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Mesembryanthemum grows in the greatest abundance, it was in full fruit, and constituted a favourite and important article of food among the native population; all our party partook of it freely, and found it both. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
Mesembryanthemum, which grew there in immense quantities, and was now just ripe; whilst the scrub, by which these plains were surrounded, seemed to be alive with wallabie, adding variety to abundance in the article of food. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
Mesembryanthemum spp., and Atriplex spp. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale: Nu-ick. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale (pig's face). From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
9 Mesembryanthemum crystallinum Ice Plant 3.01.2008 10 Cortaderia selloana Pampas Grass. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Mesembryanthemum. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
Mesembryanthemum sp. From Wordnik.com. [5. Appendices] Reference
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
Mesembryanthemum The Wealth of India VI: 349. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Mesembryanthemum. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
Mesembryanthemum, 26. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Mesembryanthemum, sp. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
262 Mesembryanthemum aureum. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed] Reference
Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale (pig’s face). From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
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