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This is one of many pages describing plants and animal life that we have in our garden. In many cases, we don't know what they are. Comments welcome.

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I had thought that this was a weed, but it seems to be Portulaca oleracea, also known as pig weed or purslane, and the Western Australian Herbarium does not state that it's a weed. It seems that Australian indigenous people use it as a foodstuff.


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