| New Zealand Spinach
Tetragonia tetragonoides |
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| Family: AIZOACEAE | Distribution: Queensland to Victoria |
| Other name/s: Warrigal Spinach, Warrigal Cabbage | |
| Synonyms: Tetragonia expansa | |
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Description: Prostrate spreading annual or possibly a short-lived perennial. Leaves green, fleshy, alternate, rhombic to narrow-ovate, to 10 cm long and 5 cm wide. Fruit subglobose, 10-12 mm diam. woody, winged with numerous light-brown seeds. Usually grows on incipient dunes, foredunes and headlands.
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Propagation: Propagate with freshly collected
seed from ripe fruit. Seed capsules as taken from plant can be planted directly into tubes or pots or plant immediately in clean seedling mix of 2/3 washed river sand and 1/3 peat moss or organic matter. Prick out seedlings into tubes at
cotyledon stage if possible. Seed will store if kept cool and dry and protected from insect and vermin attack, but germination drops off over time. Plants can be grown from
cuttings.
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Regeneration use: Pioneer species in severely degraded ecosystems. Essential part of climax community, especially on foredune.
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CPR Coastal Plant Regeneration |
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