• Muehlenbekia, Native spinach and Knobbly Clubrush

Natives in Piha

Muehlenbekia, Native spinach and Knobbly Clubrush

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Yellow: Knobbly club rush: A fine green-orange sedge that forms fountain like clumps readily spreading by self seeding

Red: NZ Spinach or Tetragonia implexicoma: A coastal plant with a spreads of 2 metres or more. The leaf is edible as a vegetable.

Blue: Muehlenbeckia is a fabulous plan to grow over fences, over ghastly concrete retaining walls and to hold banks. It is beautiful to the eye and great at inhibiting weeds.

Photo taken by Bobbie Carroll on the boardwalk between the South Piha carpark and the Eel Bridge in Piha TOC