alien invaders and native thugs: some new concerns
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Alien invaders and native thugs: some new concerns. Ian Denholm. Botanical Society of the British Isles. Alien invaders I: Chilean Giant Rhubarb Gunnera tinctoria. From stately homes. to Irish & Scottish riverbanks. A lien invaders I: Chilean Giant Rhubarb Gunnera tinctoria. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Alien invaders and native thugs: some new concerns
Ian DenholmBotanical Society of the British
Isles
Alien invaders I: Chilean Giant Rhubarb Gunnera
tinctoria
From stately homes..to Irish & Scottish riverbanks
Alien invaders I: Chilean Giant Rhubarb Gunnera
tinctoria
Alien invaders I: Chilean Giant Rhubarb Gunnera
tinctoriaThe Mayo News, July 2010 Gunnera kill
begins on Achill.
“ARMED with hooks, machetes and a couple of gallons of ‘round-up’, volunteers have travelled to Achill Island to try to eradicate the Gunnera plant” .
Alien invaders II:Ragweed Ambrosia artemisiifolia
World’s most allergenic plant?
Alien invaders III:Fringe-cups Tellima grandiflora
Alien invaders IV: Summer cypress Bassia scoparia
“Natives good, aliens bad?”
www.bsbi.org.uk/alien_invaders_.html
Cornflower, corncockle & Fuchsia: bad aliens?
Nettle, bramble & bracken: native thugs?