CHENOPODIACEAE

Beaded Glasswort

 

25cm 

Flowers do not have petals, but the white styles and stigmas are visible. Borne in fleshy spikes, on upper segments of upright stems. 

 

Small succulent shrub with green to red upright, segmented stems and greenish rooted prostrate stems. 

Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Coast; Clarence; Devonport; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Huon Valley; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar 

 

Abundant in saltmarshes, also found on coastal rock platforms and in rock-crevices. 

 

 

 

Propagate by seed, cuttings or division. Division is more reliable but often establishment is slow. Cuttings need regular watering, and advanced plants can be watered with diluted seawater. Important food plant for migratory birds. The Tasmanian Sarcocornia species are often parasitised by gall-gnats, which cause segments or short branches to become grow and turn bright red. Suitable below powerlines. 

Oval and somewhat flattened, with long slender hooked hairs. 

Soaking 

 

 

Soaking seed in water for 8-12 hours, changing water 2-3 times may improve results 

 

 

slow to take root 

 

Yes 

Cuttings are slow and not always successful.