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Carpobrotus aequilaterus (Haw.) N.E.Br.

Chilean pigface; Angled pigface; Angular pigface; Sea-fig

Aizoaceae · Chile Central, Chile South · listed by its family as a cactus or succulent

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Summary

Carpobrotus aequilaterus, common names: angled pigface, Chilean pigface, This species is thought to have originated in southern Africa (or possibly South America) and a naturalised weed elsewhere. However, according to VicFlora it is native to South Africa,

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Carpobrotus aequilaterus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Carpobrotus

Carpobrotus, commonly known as pigface, ice plant, sour fig, sea fig, Hottentot fig, and clawberry is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek karpos "fruit" and brotos "edible", referring to its edible fruits.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Carpobrotus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the family Aizoaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the family Aizoaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChile Central, Chile South · introduced: Baleares, Spain, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Mexico Northeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-32.95, -71.55 · in the densest population, 5 records (83% of those in range)
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 769 km away. 89 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) sblumen, some rights reserved (CC BY); Martybugs (Uploads), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Rosario Nieto Chadwick, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Carpobrotus 12 in the reference

Carpobrotus acinaciformis Carpobrotus acinaciformis Sally-my-handsome Photo: CC BY, Morten RossCarpobrotus chilensis Carpobrotus chilensis Sea fig Photo: CC BY, Alan RockefellerCarpobrotus deliciosus Carpobrotus deliciosus Delicious Sourfig Photo: CC BY, Andreas De BeerCarpobrotus dimidiatus Carpobrotus dimidiatus Dune Fig Photo: CC BY, EryssCarpobrotus edulis Carpobrotus edulis Hottentot-fig Photo: CC BY, Henrik KibakCarpobrotus glaucescens Carpobrotus glaucescens Angular Sea-fig Photo: CC BY, smathichongCarpobrotus mellei Carpobrotus mellei Mountain Sourfig Photo: CC0, author not statedCarpobrotus modestus Carpobrotus modestus Inland pigface Photo: CC BY, bemmaCarpobrotus muirii Carpobrotus muirii Lime Sourfig Photo: CC BY-SA, Paul EmmsCarpobrotus quadrifidus Carpobrotus quadrifidus Giant Sourfig Photo: CC BY, De Waal HugoCarpobrotus rossii Carpobrotus rossii Karkalla Photo: CC0, author not statedCarpobrotus virescens Carpobrotus virescens Coastal pigface Photo: CC BY-SA, Carmon

Names & registers

Also known as Carpobrotus aequilateralis; Carpobrotus disparalis; Carpobrotus disparilis; Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale; Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale var. decagynum and 6 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Aizoaceae
Described by
(Haw.) N.E.Br.
Native to
Chile Central, Chile South
Wild records
6 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-216 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 31 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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