NEW ZEALAND SPINACH

Tetragonia tetragonioides

Dewplant Family [Aizoaceae]

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status
statusZneophyte
 
flower
flower8cream
 
inner
inner8white
 
petals
petalsZ4
 
petals
petalsZ5
 
type
typeZspiked
 
stem
stem8round
 
sex
sexZbisexual
 

Photo: © RWD
Sorry, I have no photos of New Zealand Spinach; whatever my photos were on the first part of the photos from 18th May 2018, they are not of New Zealand Spinach!!

If anyone does have some photos of it, please forward to me, Roger Darlington, e-mailed to rogerarm@freeuk.com


Not to be semantically confused with : New Zealand Wind-grass (Anemanthele lessoniana), New Zealand Bitter-cress (Cardamine corymbosa), New Zealand Hair Sedge (Carex comans), New-Zealand Pigmyweed (Crassula helmsii), New-Zealand Willowherb (Epilobium brunnescens), New Zealand Broadleaf (Griselinia littoralis), New Zealand Everlastingflower (Helichrysum bellidioides), New Zealand Mallow (Hoheria populnea), New Zealand Pennywort (Hydrocotyle novae-zeelandiae), New-Zealand Holly (Olearia macrodonta), Lesser New Zealand Flax (Phormium cookianum) nor with New-Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax) [a plant with similar name belonging to a differing family or genus]

Uniquely identifiable characteristics

Distinguishing Feature :

No relation to : Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) [a similarly edible plant with similar name belonging to a differing family, Amaranthaceae].

You would never have thought that this plant was in any way related to the Dewplants, such as Hottentot-Fig (Carpobrotus edulis) which are in the same Aizoaceae family, but apparently both are edible.

It grows in waste places and rubbish tips where it is often dumped. Here it is growing on a vertical wall of the public outside part of a garden wall.


  Tetragonia tetragonioides  ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ Aizoaceae  

Distribution
 family8Dewplant family8Aizoaceae
 BSBI maps
genus8Tetragonia
Tetragonia
(New Zealand Spinach)

NEW ZEALAND SPINACH

Tetragonia tetragonioides

Dewplant Family [Aizoaceae]