Oct 12, 2025
#3199 - Cleretum papulosum - Salad Sandfig
The genus Cleretum was established by English succulent expert Nicholas Edward Brown in 1925. He based the diagnosis on a herbarium sheet that was later discovered to contain parts belonging to plants in different genera, and without designating a holotype. To say that this caused later headaches in an understatement.
An Ice Plant native to South Africa, that unfortunately finds the climate and appalling soils of the Western Wheatbelt entirely to its liking. The fruit and leaves are edible, both as as a snack and for their flavour, but is apparently toxic to live stock, probably because they eat much more of it.
GSB2024 Wongan Hills - Lake Ninan