Conicosia

Conicosia is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.^[1] They are known commonly as narrow-leafed ice plants. These are relatively short-lived perennials with underground stems and tentacle-shaped, dull-pointed triangular leaves. They bear large tubular flowers often exceeding 10 centimeters in width, with up to 250 fringelike petals arranged in a ring around a center with hundreds of stamens. The fruit is a capsule which opens when it gets wet, slowly releasing the hundreds of tiny seeds as they fall out of its drying flesh.

Conicosia
Conicosia pugioniformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Aizoaceae
Subfamily:	Ruschioideae
Tribe:	Apatesieae
Genus:	Conicosia N.E.Br.
Species[1]
Conicosia elongata (Haw.) Schwantes Conicosia pugioniformis (L.) N.E.Br.
Synonyms[1]
Herrea Schwantes

Two species are accepted.^[1]

• Conicosia elongata (Haw.) Schwantes
• Conicosia pugioniformis (L.) N.E.Br.