This plant doesn't look like anything else on the grassy plains. In fact it almost looks like it doesn't belong. The big fleshy leaves and bright in-your-face pink flowers are unmistakable. It's Inland Pigface Carpobrotus modestus, seen growing here beside a little creek near Bannockburn today. Cotula coronopifolia, the yellow water buttons that 'they' took a long time to decide was not an Aussie plant but South African only, is also putting on a show.
Pigface is edible, but I think they should find a nicer common name to make it more palatable.
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We get Carpobrotus rossii here. The fruit (Kunnikungs) is said to be an acquired taste but personally I found it to be delicious from the start.
G'day Boobook,
The 'Pig Face' can get pretty invasive can't it? We have small patches on the golf course - the golfers hate it of course, so we try to control it a bit. It's a shame when native species almost become invasive weeds - Kangaroo Thorn etc.
Gouldiae
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