Key Identification Features
- ) Grulich produces two distinct types of shoots.
- Populations in Britain have a compact, slow-growing habit instead of the typical creeping form, while plants from North Africa have distinctly bluish-purple foliage.
- After blooming, the plant produces upright, pale brown seed capsules marked with distinct ridges.
- It has distinctive short, thickly succulent leaves that are roughly triangular in cross-section, with slightly rounded angles (leaf margins).
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