I don't know if we get spekboom here in Australia, I'll have to look into that. If it was imported in the early settlement days it will be here, if not, they'll likely try to keep it out of the country. Southern African natives tend to grow a little too well here. 😅
Being spring, I've yet to see any signs of purslane yet, but my lamb's quarter is well underway, @buckaroobaby.
I had a discussion with some friends recently. South Africa and Australia have similar growing conditions. In my part of the Western Cape, we have major issues with Australian trees like Australian myrtle (Leptospermum laevigatum), black wattle (Acacia mearnsii), and coastal wattle (Acacia cyclops). It is so bad that we South Africans braai (aka bbq) with coastal wattle almost daily and refer to it as "rooikrans" braai wood. It is so funny how Australian natives have become weeds here and how South African natives have become weeds there (like the African daisy and pig's ear or arum lily).
I gather you have some of the gum trees there too. Crazy bushfire fuel...
I don't know if you call them soursobs there, but I read they come from southern Africa too. They grow like crazy in winter! Luckily the chickens like them.
Indeed! The last couple of wildfires and man-made fires most of the "experts" said that non-indigenous (alien) trees helped spread the fires quicker and made them more intense as the local fynbos burns differently; quicker and less intense fires.
Oh, yes! African wood-sorrel or Cape-sorrel. I love them in a salad, very tangy, although the oxalic content is quite high, hence the tanginess.