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Scientific Name:Galenia pubescens
Galenia flower
Galenia flower
Photo: A J Brown

Status:
Native to South Africa. Naturalised in Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales.

Plant Description:
Prostrate to weakly ascending perennial to 60 cm high, forming mats or mounds to 1.6 m diameter. Leaves semi-succulent and papillose (with pimple-like covering), hairy, obovate to spatular shaped, 4-25 mm long and 2-18 mm wide, flat or slightly folded with a slightly recurved apex.

Flowers of 5 perianth segments (flower-like bracts), 2-3 mm long, hairy on the outside but hairless and white to pink on the inside. Fruit a cup-shaped, strongly angular capsule containing a dark-brown seed.

Habitat:
Common in coastal areas around Melbourne and Geelong on beach sand and saltmarsh. Also growing inland on dryish and somewhat saline areas on wasteland and roadsides.

RegionSalinity ClassWaterlogging Class
Mallee, WesternS1, S2, S3W0, W1

Comments:
Galenia is in the Pigface family (Aizoaceae) but has different-looking flowers to those normally associated with them.

Galenia Photos

Galenia flowers
Galenia flowers
Photo: A J Brown
Galenia leaf tips
Galenia leaves
Photo: A J Brown
Galenia plant
Flowering Galenia plant
Photo: A J Brown
Galenia flower
Galenia plant
Photo: A J Brown
Galenia leaves
Leaf tips of Galenia
Photo: A J Brown
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Galenia in the Inasive Plants section of the VRO.
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