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Karkalla
Karkalla - Carpobrotus
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Karkalla is an Aboriginal name for succulent, creeping plants which grow along the sandy shores of southern Australia. They have large purple flowers and egg-shaped fleshy fruit. A European name for these plants - Pigface - is much less appealing.
Karkalla, and other similar species, has become a popular ground-cover plant in Australian gardens where the soil is sandy and the sea is not far away. The thick fleshy leaves help the plant survive in dry soils and salty environments and the flowers (which may appear at almost any time of the year) are bright and showy.
Before white settlers arrived, however, the Koories had a much more important use for. To them it was a year-round source of fruit and a rather salty leaf vegetable.
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