Can you eat soursob?

Can you eat soursob?

You can eat the stalks, flowers, and leaves, raw or cooked. They have a fresh, lemony flavour that makes them perfect for mixed salads. In South Australia, wood sorrel is known as ‘soursob’ and is a common snack for children on their way to school.

Is soursob a weed?

It is often a weed of woodland or Karri forest. Yellow Wood Sorrel (Oxalis corniculata) is a creeping herb with much-branched and sometimes reddish stems that root at many points. It has single flowers or small clusters of yellow flowers occurring among the leaves.

Are soursob native to Australia?

Thousands of hectares of valuable cereal growing land in Western Australia are infested with the weed soursob ( Oxalis pes-caprae L.). This plant, native to South Africa, was introduced to other countries during the mid-eighteenth century (Clarke 1934).

What is soursop weed?

Scientific name: Oxalis pes-caprae Soursobs are regularly confused with clover due to their very similar leaf appearance. Soursobs spread with clover-like leaves along the ground, producing flowers with 5 petals and have a long white tuberous root.

Are Bidens edible?

There are many edible Bidens and they grow just about everywhere so check out your local species. Those with edible leaves include Bidens bipinnata, Bidens frondosa, Bidens odorata, Bidens parvifolia, Bidens tripartita and Bidens laevis. Leaves of the Bidens aurea and Bidens bigelovii have been used for tea.

How do you remove soursob?

How to manage soursobs. The best way to manage soursobs is to let them grow to just before their flowering stage and then mow them off, trying to get as little of the lawn as possible, repeating it once a week. This attacks the weed at its weakest stage.

How do I get rid of soursob?

Each is a potential new soursob plant. The only way to kill both the mature plants and all of the developing bulbils is to spray the leaves with a systemic herbicide containing glyphosate before flowering begins. Timing of spraying is critical. It must be before the plants begin to flower.

Can sheep eat Soursob?

It has been reported that up to 25% of sheep may be affected in some flocks grazing soursob.

Is Sourgrass edible?

The plant contains oxalic acid, which can be toxic in high quantities but beneficial in smaller doses. The seed pods are also edible and may be ground as a spice and added to recipes.

Is Oxalis a weed in Australia?

Soursob (Oxalis pes-caprae) is a significant environmental weed in Victoria and South Australia and an environmental weed in Western Australia and New South Wales. The leaves emerge from the top of an underground stem (i.e. rhizome) at or just below the soil surface.

How do you get rid of Oxalis weed in Australia?

Spot spraying with a broadleaf herbicide is the most effective way of dealing with the problem but be very careful to control spray drift. You will want to make sure you eliminate Oxalis from your garden as well as your lawn otherwise the problem will simply keep reappearing.