Succulent shrub to several metres tall. Branches more or less horizontal. Leaves deciduous, opposite, fleshy. Flowers pink, in small clusters. Ovary superior containing a single ovule. Fruit a thin-walled nut with 3 wings.
Generally grown as a tub or pot plant for the attractive leaves.
Cuttings.
A fodder plant in S Africa.
Small succulent leaves; ovary superior; fruit 3-winged.
7 species from southern Africa
Source: (1997). Portulacaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
