Argyroderma delaetii (Argyroderma delaetii)
Description
This plants remain solitary or slowly clump and form clusters of little ?eggs? at the ends of short prostrate stems,They consist of a pair of fleshy leaves,either in clusters or singly,up to cm hight.It is extremely variable and also plants from the same seed capsule may show different flower colours,reflected by the great numbers of synonyms.Silvery-blue to blue-green eggs-shaped cut almost in two along their width,with a v-shaped fissure extending along the cut.Each half of the cut open egg is actually a greatly thickened leaf,and each year a new set of leaves appears in the fissure,arranged perpendicularly to the preceding pair of leaves.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Caryophyllales
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Family: Aizoaceae
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Genus: Argyroderma
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