Quiz answers
Quiz answers
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).
