Pig face!
By Tom T
Published 28 August 2024
Imagine a face of a pig and put that into a flower
It's spring or it's summer, just one or the other
It's temperate but doesn't need much shower.
Flowers will open only on sunny days
the leaves will try to capture lots of sunny rays.
Carpobrotus rosii is its scientific name
drained, rocky soils, and full sun is its game
Aboriginal people eat its leaves with meat
but all parts are edible and are hard to defeat.
Fruit with horns like sheep or cows
they live on beaches, dunes, headlands
fruit is ripe in autumn and summer
and if you've ever seen this plant you'll know there's always another.
But climate change is killing
it's reducing the soil's moisture
killing all our future, killing all of nature.
Pig faces are smart and they have adapted
gets water from far away, it will never get distracted
hiding from wind by growing low on the ground
and on the internet that's all that we have found.