Galenia
Pink Flower
Murray Mallee Region
Desert Spinach
Habit
 
                      
Galenia (Galenia secunda)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Vines
Order: Betalains (Caryophyllales)
Family: Ice Plant (Aizoaceae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Galenia (Galenia secunda)
This Photo:     🔍White Flower🔎
Synonym: Aizoon secundum

Thank you Ernst Weiher for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
Has white or pink flowers. It's much hairier than it's relation, Aizoon pubescens, which is also introduced in Australia and seems more common.

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This species is classed as If (Foreign Introduction)