Re: [OM] Kinglake, Vic

[Chuck Norcutt]

As does your Melaleuca quinquenervia, the highly invasive scourge of the 
Florida Everglades.  They're highly flammable but burning them only 
causes them to drop vast quantities of seeds.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca_quinquenervia>
But it appears that back-to-back burnings can work.
<http://usasearch.gov/search?v%3aproject=firstgov&v%3afile=viv_1092%4020%3apRcml3&v%3astate=root%7croot&opener=full-window&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.fws.gov%2finvasives%2fstaffTrainingModule%2fpdfs%2fmethods%2fburn_casestudy.pdf&rid=Ndoc2&v%3aframe=redirect&rsource=firstgov-msn&v%3astate=%28root%29%7croot&rrank=2&h=cfa90899839824aa54cadd4f7560df91&;>

Chuck Norcutt


Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
> There are shrubs that hold all the seed that they produce until  
> killed and dried out by fire - then they release millions of seed 
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