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Yellow-eye Wood Sorrel (<em>Oxalis obtusa</em>)

Yellow-eye Wood Sorrel (Oxalis obtusa)

Format ImagePosted on August 24, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Yellow-eye Wood Sorrel (Oxalis obtusa)

Yellow-eye Wood Sorrel (Oxalis obtusa), another of Melbourne’s strikingly coloured infestations from South Africa’s Western Cape province and Namaqualand. A relative of the ubiquitous Soursob  …  Read the full post

Large-flower wood-sorrel (<em>Oxalis purpurea</em>)

Large-flower wood-sorrel (Oxalis purpurea)

Format ImagePosted on August 27, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Large-flower wood-sorrel (Oxalis purpurea)

Large-flower wood-sorrel (Oxalis purpurea), a South African perennial bulb adopted as a garden ornamental. Typically flowering a bright magenta as seen here, white and pale-pink  …  Read the full post

Bowie’s wood-sorrel (<em>Oxalis bowiei</em>)

Bowie’s wood-sorrel (Oxalis bowiei)

Format ImagePosted on May 13, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Bowie’s wood-sorrel (Oxalis bowiei)

Bowie’s wood-sorrel (Oxalis bowiei), a South African species named for a long-dead Kew Gardens collector, and a covert and rarely collected weed of Melbourne and  …  Read the full post

Soursob (<em>Oxalis pes-caprae</em>)

Soursob (Oxalis pes-caprae)

Format ImagePosted on April 30, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Soursob (Oxalis pes-caprae)

Soursob (Oxalis pes-caprae), blooming very early in a sheltered position at the Werribee River crossing of the Main Outfall Sewer. This alien wood sorrel poses  …  Read the full post

Fishtail Woodsorrel (<em>Oxalis latifolia</em>)

Fishtail Woodsorrel (Oxalis latifolia)

Format ImagePosted on November 29, 2018by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Fishtail Woodsorrel (Oxalis latifolia)

Fishtail Woodsorrel (Oxalis latifolia), white-flowering form. Longtime subscribers know that this channel favours Victoria’s heavy complement of wood-sorrel species. Having previously featured the pink-flowering form  …  Read the full post

Creeping wood-sorrel (<em>Oxalis corniculata</em>)

Creeping wood-sorrel (Oxalis corniculata)

Format ImagePosted on November 4, 2018by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Creeping wood-sorrel (Oxalis corniculata)

Creeping wood-sorrel (Oxalis corniculata), in its anthocyanin form (producing red foliage — the species also comes in green). Sometimes cultivated as an edible, lemony green,  …  Read the full post

Pale wood-sorrel (<em>Oxalis incarnata</em>)

Pale wood-sorrel (Oxalis incarnata)

Format ImagePosted on October 3, 2018by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Pale wood-sorrel (Oxalis incarnata)

Pale wood-sorrel (Oxalis incarnata), making its second appearance on the channel this year to acknowledge its complete annexation of this Northcote residential yard. The house  …  Read the full post

Sourgrass or Pink-sorrel (<em>Oxalis articulata</em>)

Sourgrass or Pink-sorrel (Oxalis articulata)

Format ImagePosted on September 23, 2018by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Sourgrass or Pink-sorrel (Oxalis articulata)

Sourgrass or Pink-sorrel (Oxalis articulata), a South American colonist brought to Victoria by 1855 (thanks J. and J. Rule, Richmond), recorded naturalised in NSW from  …  Read the full post

Fishtail Wood-sorrel (<em>Oxalis latifolia</em>)

Fishtail Wood-sorrel (Oxalis latifolia)

Format ImagePosted on September 10, 2018by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Fishtail Wood-sorrel (Oxalis latifolia)

Fishtail Wood-sorrel (<em>Oxalis latifolia</em>). Only recorded in Victoria from the 1940s, although it was present in other states from at least a somewhat earlier date,  …  Read the full post

Pale wood-sorrel (<em>Oxalis incarnata</em>)

Pale wood-sorrel (Oxalis incarnata)

Format ImagePosted on September 2, 2018by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Pale wood-sorrel (Oxalis incarnata)

Pale wood-sorrel (Oxalis incarnata), spilling out of a front garden in Northcote. A late arrival from Southern Africa, the species (also known by common names  …  Read the full post

Large-flowered or Purple Woodsorrel (<em>Oxalis purpurea</em>)

Large-flowered or Purple Woodsorrel (Oxalis purpurea)

Format ImagePosted on August 5, 2018by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on 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

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