[LINETFAD]

Via Qld Dept Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

The additional weeds which have been added to the WoNS list are:

• African boxthorn
• asparagus weeds
• bellyache bush
• brooms
• cat's claw creeper
• fireweed
• gamba grass
• Madeira vine
• opuntioid cacti
• sagittaria
• silverleaf nightshade
• water hyacinth.

[fygESytT]

oh, I am thinking I should be cheering ... but ... :/

At least the weed groups are still being funded and keeping up with their work, and I am grateful for that.

What a huge job ahead though.

thanks Helix .. a weed thread is what I was needing to feel "at home" again!

[HaremShaih]

Thanks for the update Helix, no idea how I missed that (I did know Fireweed had been added, but not the others). now I'll have to update some paperwork'n'stuff.

Bloody glad they've added the other Asparagus weeds to that list, now if only they'd include Delairea odorata - Cape Ivy.

[HaremShaih]

thanks Helix .. a weed thread is what I was needing to feel "at home" again!

There is a Landcare thread too ya know...

[fygESytT]

There is a Landcare thread too ya know...

oh gosh ... I HAVE got behind ... more reading and less responding is clearly the go!

(I love all the info being posted ... with this new system (especially if we all learn to use the tags) then the wiki idea will prove superfluous I think)

[HaremShaih]

I don't feel so bad about not knowing now, list was only officially updated this month.

Additional List of Weeds of National Significance – April 2012


An independent review in 2007 concluded that a nationally strategic approach had been highly successful, leveraging consistent multi-jurisdictional activity on high priority species. This initial review was followed up by a detailed review of all species by the Australian Weeds Committee (AWC) in 2009 and 2010. The AWC reviewed the extent to which all 20 national strategies had been implemented and looked broadly at the capacity for national coordination of additional WoNS species in future.



The Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council (Resolution 15.7, 21 May 2009) endorsed a three phased approach to national management of the WoNS species (see Figure 1, below). This aims to make the most cost-effective use of limited ‘national coordination’ resources available from public funds.

http://www.weeds.org.au/WoNS/

[newshep]

Haven't had alook at the site - but I would bet that a good percentage of them are in my new garden

[HaremShaih]

Some more good info 'bout weed management in general (not just WoNS).

http://www.weeds.org.au/training.htm

[Siliespiriulk]

Haven't had alook at the site - but I would bet that a good percentage of them are in my new garden

Only the frost resistant ones

[newshep]

Our garden has become a mass of weeds - that's what you get when you rent out your house for 12 months

We now have ivy (I spent 2 years getting rid of it at our old place)

and another viney thing - small green leaves and a purple flower - not morning glory. Thought I would ask here before googling. IT has taken over and has managed to suffocate a number of plants - including a rhodadendrum(spelling? I cant get spell check to work yet!)

[HaremShaih]

and another viney thing - small green leaves and a purple flower - not morning glory. Thought I would ask here before googling. IT has taken over and has managed to suffocate a number of plants

Post a pic in the Weeds thread and I'm sure we'll sort it for ya. Off the top of my head Bluebell Creeper - Sollya heterophylla is the first that comes to mind, as it can be a vicious barsteward. Dolichos pea -Dipogon lignosus also might be a candidate.

Dunno really, only guessing.

[newshep]

Bluebell Creeper - nope not that - I'll try and take a photo tomorrow. I'll be working from home, as workmen didn't finish installing the cabinets

[phinno13]

Aren't there native/indigenous fireweeds?

[HaremShaih]

Aren't there native/indigenous fireweeds?

Yep, plenty of them. the common name is often applied to various species of Senecio (and other non-related plants). A quick count of species for my region shows there are about 10-11 native spp., plus two introduced ones. The plant that this thread is about is Senecio madagascariensis (image from Bega Valley Plants page).

[HaremShaih]

I just had a look at PlantNET buffy and it seems there are around 50 native Senecio species in Oz (no idea how many have common name "Fireweed" attached).

Distribution and occurrence: World: c. 2000 species, cosmopolitan. Australia: c. 50 species, all States.

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cg...n&name=Senecio

[phinno13]

I thought it was a very common common name. I can't tell most of them apart.

(Senecios, that is)

[HaremShaih]

I can't tell most of them apart.(Senecios, that is)

You ain't alone there, I can ID about 4 species myself, clueless as to the others. Even local botanist friend whose pics appear on that Bega website reckons she struggles at times without referring to her books and keys.

[fygESytT]

Mount Lofty Ranges "Fireweed"; indigenous sp

Ixodia achilleoides ssp alata (images)

[HaremShaih]

Relevant to this particular thread, so here it is. (also placed in more general Weed Thread )

Fireweed becomes national weed of significance

Noel Watson is a happy farmer.

He proves that community lobbying works when it comes to securing federal government assistance for weed control.

The beef producer from the Bega valley of the NSW south coast convenes a regional fireweed committee that formed with the express aim of alerting the Federal Government to the negative impact of the exotic fireweed on agricultural production.


Fireweed is a 13-petalled, yellow-flowering daisy-like plant that is toxic to most livestock, although it can be tolerated by goats and sheep.

The Bega valley puts on a vivid yellow show for several months a year during flowering of the fireweed, when the weed infestations are very obvious on the landscape and along roadsides.

The warm climate weed is spreading south from northern NSW and is a relatively new weed to be introduced to the Kiah River farming valley, toward the Victorian border.

more at link above, including audio.