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Plant ID needed
I wonder if some kind soul out there can help me, please???
I am looking for an ID on http://kapana.customer.netspace.net.au/Plant.html which I am told is a native. Thanks Linda |
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Plant ID needed
Linda wrote:
I wonder if some kind soul out there can help me, please??? I am looking for an ID on http://kapana.customer.netspace.net.au/Plant.html which I am told is a native. Thanks Linda It's Mickey Mouse plant, Linda (Ochna serrulata). It's a weed in our area - dunno whether it's been declared or not, but it's not looked on with favour - it spreads easily and is thick and woody and *very* hard to dig out!) Starlings spread it by eating the berries (which turn black and make the flower look like Mickey Mouse) and then cr@pping them out somewhere else. HTH, -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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Plant ID needed
Linda, Trish Brown is dead right with her ID. It is a noxious weed, bloody
horrible import! get rid of it, too ugly to be a native of Oz IMHO. "Linda" wrote in message ... I wonder if some kind soul out there can help me, please??? I am looking for an ID on http://kapana.customer.netspace.net.au/Plant.html which I am told is a native. Thanks Linda |
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Plant ID needed
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Linda wrote: I wonder if some kind soul out there can help me, please??? I am looking for an ID on http://kapana.customer.netspace.net.au/Plant.html which I am told is a native. Definitely Ochna, as you have been told. Funny, someone tried to sell my Mum some Asparagus Fern, telling her it was a native (they probably dug it up in remnant bushland). Both are nasty weeds, declared noxious in some places, and both are so remarkably ugly you wonder why anyone would want them. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Jeez; if only those Ancient Greek storytellers had known about the astonishing creature that is the *Usenet hydra*: you cut off one head, and *a stupider one* grows back..." -- MJ, cam.misc |
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Plant ID needed
"Wallaby" writes:
Linda, Trish Brown is dead right with her ID. It is a noxious weed, bloody horrible import! get rid of it, too ugly to be a native of Oz IMHO. The one good thing about okna is that it is extremely susceptible to the Zero and Roundup weedicides, especially when still a seedling. One spray wetting all the leaves and the okna is kaput within a week or two. Just as with the asthma weed, spraying okna gives very satisfying results! (I'm offline so haven't actually examined the cited photo, however.) -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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