Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) • Earth.com

Blue stone plants

(Argyroderma patens)

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Description

Argyroderma patens is a succulent plant that consist of a pair of fleshy leaves, either singly or in clusters. The leaves are up to 1.6 inches (4 cm) tall and up to 0.8 inch (2 cm) wide, half-ovoid, rounded slightly compressed and keeled below, silvery-blue to grayish-silver, older leaves rusty-brown, with a v-shaped fissure. The flowers are up to 1.2 inches (3 cm) in diameter, daisy like, purple or magenta-pink. Flowers appear late in autumn or winter.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Aizoaceae
Genus:Argyroderma
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