The west coast of florida is overrun with casuarina; forms monoculture along the beach. There is another low area known as the Everglades that Melaleuca found to its liking and took it over.Huge problems here, no problems there; your natives are our exotic invaders.Ekka said:school leavers who are interested in hort to help eradicate pests , around 400 recruits a year."
How much are they paid? I don't know if they get that many to manage pests in florida. Most american students I meet don't want to get their hands dirty, or sweat.
Casuarina and melaleuca are natives and not a problem. How have they become invasive over there? They tend to hang around lower lying areas and coastal areas ... what grows in those conditions over there?
treeseer said:The west coast of florida is overrun with casuarina; forms monoculture along the beach. There is another low area known as the Everglades that Melaleuca found to its liking and took it over.Huge problems here, no problems there; your natives are our exotic invaders.
There may be natural pests or other reasons camphor is not such a big problem in florida.
Never mind the locals, it's thousands of years of evolution undone, and associated species disrupted and possibly wiped out. Hard to imagine? Just look at jackrabbits and camphor trees in australia. It is hard to imagine those cute bunnies being such a bother, until you're invaded by them.Ekka said:hard to imagine our trees invading another continent and pissing the locals off.
Ekka, most of the Everglades was treeless, a sort of marsh grassland ecosystem. In addition to crowding out the native plants, Melaleuca quinquenervia alters the hydrology and fire regime where it invades. It's become a sort of poster child for invasive trees in the US.Ekka said:OK, along the beach before casuarinas, what else grew?
And in the Everglades what else grows? Hmm maybe swamp cypress, you know Taxodium distichum.
Just interested, hard to imagine our trees invading another continent and pissing the locals off.
... I know what you meant by that, but it means something a little different to most yanks!Ekka said:you better wear your thongs!
I wouldn't want to sit on them while wearing a thong, that's for sure! Course I ain't got the bod to wear one in public anyway...JeffE said:... I know what you meant by that, but it means something a little different to most yanks!
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