Tall fleabane (Erigeron sumatrensis), sometimes known as Horseweed. Thought to have originated in South America, this is another very successful pantropical weed that achieves as … Read the full post
Large-flowered or Purple Woodsorrel (Oxalis purpurea)
Large-flowered or Purple Woodsorrel (Oxalis purpurea), a widespread, winter-flowering environmental weed originally brought from South Africa as a garden ornamental. It showed up in Melbourne … Read the full post
Wall Pellitory (Parietaria judaica)
Wall Pellitory (Parietaria judaica) in one of its great Melbourne infestations, on the shingle and retaining walls of a disordered margin above the Lower Yarra. … Read the full post
Pampas Lily of the Valley (Salpichroa organifolia)
Pampas Lily of the Valley (Salpichroa organifolia) is a scrambling plant capable of smothering small trees and wire fences alike, and originated in temperate South … Read the full post
Bunchflower Daffodil (Narcissus tazetta ssp. aureus)
Bunchflower Daffodil (Narcissus tazetta ssp. aureus) on the east bank of Gardiner’s Creek. The fully golden Jonquil is a product of the western Mediterranean (Italy, … Read the full post
Bunchflower Daffodil (Narcissus tazetta ssp. tazetta)
Bunchflower Daffodil (Narcissus tazetta ssp. tazetta) on the Yarra flood bank in Abbotsford. The pure white-flowering tazetta subspecies of Jonquil is found across the Mediterranean … Read the full post
Madeira Winter Cherry (Solanum pseudocapsicum)
Madeira Winter Cherry (Solanum pseudocapsicum) masquerading as an ornamental shrub in a church forecourt. Its position, crowding out an Aeonium from the kerb edge of … Read the full post
Wall Pellitory (Parietaria judaica)
Wall Pellitory (Parietaria judaica). A ubiquitous urban weed, originally from Southern Europe and Asia Minor. If Melbourne gardeners maintained the state’s weeds list, this might … Read the full post
Lilly Pilly (Syzygium smithii)
Lilly Pilly (Syzygium smithii), riparian rafted and colonising the eastern bank of Gardiner’s Creek. Although sold in Victoria since the early colonial period as an … Read the full post