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Tree Privet<br />

Ligustrum lucidum<br />

Status:<br />

Serious environmental weed<br />

Garden escape<br />

Found in moist slopes, gullies and streams<br />

Features: Evergreen shrubs or trees, with green<br />

oval leaves and small white flowers in spring,<br />

followed by prolific red fruits turning black.<br />

Dispersal: Fruit eaten by birds and foxes, spread<br />

into gardens and bush.<br />

Control:<br />

Increasing in <strong>Manningham</strong><br />

Radiata Pine<br />

Pinus radiata<br />

Status:<br />

Serious environmental weed<br />

Garden escape<br />

Features: A tall, evergreen, softwood tree to 30m.<br />

Dark green needle like leaves in threes. The large,<br />

seed bearing cones at the end of branches take two<br />

to three years to mature.<br />

Dispersal: Seeds dispersed by wind some distance<br />

from the parent tree all year round and by birds.<br />

Similar local native plants: Exocarpos species<br />

(Ballarts).<br />

Control:<br />

Large Shrubs and Trees<br />

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