You rebel you!
It doesn't seem like a terrible thing to me to take a piece of that plant home.
Speaking of young and not a "typical" American, here's a recent article about native California coastal succulents that have been disappearing to the Asian market.
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
Obviously a different story from the plant that started this thread, to be perfectly clear, but an interesting tangent in context.
And it's funny to me that someone would actually want to grow Carpobrotus. I understand why you would try, don't get me wrong. Especially where winter cold prohibits the plant from escaping your garden. But from my point of view, in our climate, the plant is more a menace or a weed than anything else. I have planted it in the garden but then I regretted it and pulled out most of it. I would some day like to remove it entirely but our dry winter did not do much to promote the growth of the ice plant I was hoping would replace it.
The reason is evident on our local beaches where these plants outcompete our native plants and take over, because they can survive on pure sand through our months-long annual summer drought.
But man, it sure does look like Delosperma cooperi (edit, Carpobrotus edulis that is) to me! They're obviously in different genus(es?), but the same Family (which doesn't say much as I think a lot of succulents are in the same Family. But, from reading, it looks like they both grow in S. Africa!
Interesting! I don't know much about those types of plants (I'm a terrible, terrible succulent grower).
If I can get it to root for me I am planning to test it's cold hardiness (sources vary from zones 7b to 9a) here in Utah where it is an impossibility that it will become invasive.
