What weed is this? It comes up all over the garden, and on our pavements. Well, it happens to be an introduced parasitic annual herb from the Mediterranean called Branched Broomrape or Orobanche ramosa. It is parasitic mostly on members of the daisy family.
Funnily enough is belongs to the same family (the Orobanchaceae or broomrape family) of our own parasitic Katnaels (Hyobanche sanguinea) which was featured in the Constantiaberg Bulletin last week.
