A South African genus of so-called ice plants, rather like Mesembryanthemums, with thick, angular, fleshy leaves. The flowers look rather like daisies, wide open and with many slender petals, but without a central disk. They are increasingly popular, and many seem to be hardy in the UK.

Delosperma 'John Proffitt' has bright fuchsia-coloured spiky-petalled daisy-like flowers and succulent foliage. Superb in a rock garden.