Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Carpobrotus aequilaterus
Common name
Angled Pigface, Angular Pigface
Family
Aizoaceae
Where found
Coastal. Mainly coastal dunes and coastal shrubland. Planted for control of erosion of sandy and sometimes saline soils, occasionally escaping.
Notes
Introduced prostrate perennial herb with stems to 2 m long. Stems, leaves, and fruit fleshy. Leaves opposite each other, triangular in cross section, 3.5–9 cm long, 5–12 mm thick, dull green or glaucous, sometimes slightly glossy. Flowers light purple throughout, sometimes pale near the base, but not white, 35–80 mm in diameter, with about 70–150 'petals'. Fruit purple, oval to oval, distinctly 2-angled, 15–30 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Apr.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Carpobrotus~aequilaterus (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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