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FYI: Lantana survey
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Posted by Rose_Qld Qld Aust (My Page) on Tue, Apr 8, 03 at 19:51
| A survey on lantana camara is currently being distributed to landholders via, I understand, land protection officers, landcare groups and visitors to the nrm website etc. Requested information includes flower samples in plastic bags for colour ID of biotypes; I queried this and am still dubious; with the best intentions, delays in transit occur. Anyway, will be interested to see the resulting information on best practice control and distribution.
This is the site: http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/pests/wons/lantana/
Cheers, Rose. |
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RE: FYI: Lantana survey
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| Hi Rose, shall check it out,I have couple of hectares of the stuff to get rid of,anything may help. If they can recognise there is a problem, maybe they will do something.??? Peter r |
Here is a link that might be useful: Lantana
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| Hey, peter, I was thinking of renaming myself Roundup, as in Roundup on replies. Thanks for adding the link, how lazy was I. Pleased to see that segment on and in GA on the Sydney (?) gardener who reclaimed her lantanaised bottom garden "sensitively". The biocontrol agent (haven't found out which one yet) is knocking the L.camara around nicely in cQ including a locally well-known commercial planting (giggle). Unfortunately the L. montevidensis, which is spreading on a face, is very healthy. Rose. |
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| Hi Rose, yes that was just great garden, I have a work for the dole group at my work, and we attacked some on Wednesday, these guys were not to fussed about hard yaka, but once started they could see the difference that they had made and we actually found some young natives amongst it, A Renovation Rescue the guys were really pleased that they had saved some native plants for the Land for Wildlife and went home having achieved something from a peice of nothing wasteland.I hope they come back next week and keep on going. I am eagerly awaiting the StMarys guys to show up next month 40 year 10 guys and let them loose in it for 2 days.Fingers Crossed. Peter r |
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| Peter, who/ what are the St Mary's guys? Let's know how you got on?? Rose |
RE: FYI: Lantana survey
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Peter,
In NQ early to mid autumn was the best time to spray Lantana and again a window opened in early spring. The spray was the cheapest form, sodium 24D but the potassium salt tested by the Alan Fletcher Lab in the 1970s was superior. Added wetting agent was essential. Glyphosate is the way now. Spraying during summer was ineffective. Seasonal timing like most weed control, was all important. Then burning and spot spraying regrowth finished it off. It is starting to be a bit cool in SEQ by mid May but I have not tested here. |
RE: FYI: Lantana survey
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- Posted by lilly1 n. qld Aust. (My Page) on
Sat, Jul 12, 03 at 7:42
| I know what a pest Lantana is. But I do have some of the lovely yellow, white and mauve ones in my garden mainly because I need tough stuff to survive where I live. Recently in a wharehouse that sells plants here in Cairns I saw some lantana for sale, that had red flowers with the circle of yellow inside. It looked so much like the pest that I just couldn't bring myself to buy it. Someone please tell me that these particular ones were not that terrible pest! |
RE: FYI: Lantana survey
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Lilly
It's been shown that the pollen from even the so-called sterile cultivars of lantana can fertilise the wild lantana creating offspring that can be harder to control and even more toxic with some crosses....afraid I lump all L. camara and L. montevidensis into the pest category.
IMO, Rose. |
RE: FYI: Lantana survey
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| New weed legislation introduced into Qld commences 1st November and will prohibit the sale of all lantana even the hybrids. Also on the hit list for this state will be african tulip trees (Spathodea) tecoma stans and singapore daisy |
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