Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

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Scientific Name: Common Name(s): Scaevola sericea Beach naupaka/scaevola, Hawaiian half-flower Height: Leaves: Flowers: Bark: Fruit: Other: Treatment: Up to 16 feet Simple, closely alternate, crowded at stem tips. Blades are thick, shiny and bright green, yellowing with age. Up to 81/2 inches long, wider at tips. White to pale purple, five petals spread out like a fan. N/A Fleshy, with a hard inner layer enclosing the fruit. Mature fruit is black. Seeds can be water dispersed Large bushy shrub with dense mounded habit. Similar to the native Scaevola plumieri but exotic has shorter, more succulent leaves. Basal with 10% Garlon 4 or stump with 50% Garlon 3A APIRS- http://aquat1.ifas.edu Identification & Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida’s Natural Areas by K.A Langeland, K. Craddock Burks 9
Scientific Name: Common Name(s): Schefflera actinophylla Queensland Umbrella tree, Schefflera, Octopus tree Height: Leaves: Flowers: Bark: Fruit: Other: Treatment: Up to 40 feet Dark green, alternate, compound leaves with a palmate or “umbrella” like arrangement. Generally having nine to 15 glossy, oblong, foot-long leaflets that radiate outward. Occur in dense clusters that form a large, red spray at stem tips. Single or multistemmed trunks with greenish bark. Fruit is round, fleshy and purplish black, about ¼ inch in diameter. Evergreen tree occurring in a wide variety of habitats, from full sun to deep shade. A common indoor plant. Introduced into Florida as a fast-growing, flowering landscape tree. It remains extremely popular both as a landscape tree in Florida and as an indoor subject in Florida and elsewhere. Umbrella tree is salt- and drought-tolerant Basal with 10% Garlon 4 or stump with 50% Garlon 3A www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/badplants.htm APIRS- http://aquat1.ifas.edu l 10
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