Delosperma echinatum

Delosperma echinatum is a succulent plant, native to South Africa. It is also known as the pickle plant. The new genus Delosperma was erected by English botanist N. E. Brown in 1925, with this species later acknowledged as the type species.^[2]

Delosperma echinatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Aizoaceae
Genus:	Delosperma
Species:	D. echinatum
Binomial name
Delosperma echinatum (Lam.) Schwantes
Synonyms[1]
Drosanthemum pruinosum (Thunb.) Schwantes Mesembryanthemum echinatum Lam.

Scottish plant-hunter Francis Masson collected this species for Kew Gardens in 1774. French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck described it as Mesembryanthemum echinatum in 1786,^[3] from material in France that most likely had come from England.^[2]

A flower on D. echinatum