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May 3, 2009
San Diego Flora
Today, I drove by a man that was gardening and I stopped and introduced myself as I just can't stand being out here and every idiot I ask has no clue what as to the names of the plants and flowering trees. Like these trees and flowers are exploding all around us like Roman candles and every dullard I ask just has no clue. No clue at all so today I just stopped right in the middle of the street and started quizzing this guy around his flowers. He mentioned Encilia and Portulaca, but I'm not clear that I've seen those plants. The bee keeper I met yesterday mentioned Oleander, but I'm not clear that this flower is on my radar screen either.
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However, he did correctly identify these as "Ice Plants"(Carpobrotus edulis). (Wendy called them "ice flowers", but for some reason I couldn't make the connection.) Apparently, they were once touted as "the perfect solution for fire safety. Planted on hillsides of thousands of homes in San Diego, it has since crawled off the original site and into neighboring Open Space parks, endangering unique plants by smothering them." So today, they're an invasive species and they're going into the parks and ripping them out. But they are beautiful.
Posted by Rob Kiser on May 3, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Comments
we also call it pickle weed.
Posted by: mgb on May 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM