- Common Name: Seablite
- Type: Herb low dense spreading, sometimes a Shrub
- Family: CHENOPODIACEAE
- Size: 10-30 cm, Shrub to 60 cm.
- Flowers: Green flowers September-December, Terminal sprays. Flowers and fruits, 1.5-2 mm, form on dense leafy spikes
- Fruit: Globular fruits to 2 mm wide; black seeds.
- Vegetation Type: Tidal Wetlands, salt flats, Drier, well drained, mid-lower tidal zone.
- Species List: Bush food, Salt Marsh, Mangrove flats Regional Ecosystem 12.1.2.
Cultural Notes
TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:
Bush food: Early settlers used Leaves as vegetable and pickle
Leaves pleasantly salty to nibble fresh. They also make a useful cooked vegetable. (Cribb)
Identification Notes
Leaves: Erect slender Leaves often reddish. Thin Succulent with a pointed striated Stem
Freshly produced and shaded foliage is soft green. Become pink for purplish with age. Sward may appear rosy red from a distance.
Branches from the base
Occasional rooting branches
Shrub-like appearance
Common on better drained Mangrove flats and at base of sand dunes along seashore. (Stanley & Ross)
