03-Feb-2022 Theme: 'Quaint plant names'

(1) What is the usual common name for plants of the Carpobrotus genus?

Answer: Pigface.

(2) What is the Madagascan weed Bryophyllum delagoense commonly known as?

Answer: Mother of Millions.

(3) What is Prickly Moses?

Answer: A wattle shrub (Acacia verticillata).

(4) What is the common name of the endangered, yellow-flowering daisy Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides, found in NSW, the ACT and Victoria?

Answer: Button Wrinklewort.

(5) What is Snottygobble? (bonus: what is Snotty Gobble)?

Answer: A shrub from south-west WA, Persoonia longiifolia (bonus: a hemiparasitic vine from south-eastern Australia, Cassytha pubescens - aka dodder).

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