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Conophytum flavum (Conophytum flavum)

Description

Conophytum flavum (yellow corn plant) is a small South African species of succulent flowering plant of the family Aizoaceae.This species has rounded, flattened (truncated) bodies, covered with many idioblasts. Its flowers, which appear in autumn and winter, are unscented and yellow (flavum is Latin for “golden”)

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Caryophyllales

            • Family: Aizoaceae

              • Genus: Conophytum