Araujia sericifera

Moth Plant at Lyons, ACT

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Identification history

	Araujia sericifera	27 May 2022	Tapirlord
	Unidentified	27 May 2022	jmcleod

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Significant sighting

Tapirlord noted:

27 May 2022

First record of this invasive weed from Oakey hill.

User's notes

Didn't really check whether it is a single plant or multiple. Flowers have finished, currently fruiting

7 comments

Tapirlord wrote:

27 May 2022

@MichaelMulvaney

jmcleod wrote:

27 May 2022

So... any specific techniques for killing this one off? Or shall I wander up there again with a garbag this weekend and just pull out everything I can find (fruits and roots in particular)?

Mike wrote:

27 May 2022

Dig the roots out.

jks wrote:

27 May 2022

Thanks for doing that service @jmcleod ❤️

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

28 May 2022

Yes this major weed elsewhere in Australia is becoming more frequent in the ACT and we will need people like Jmcleod to keep it out - Thanks

jmcleod wrote:

29 May 2022

Dig the roots out, he says... Erk, these things have extensive but shallow roots... almost 3m from where it came out of the ground to where I lost the longest root.
Did a search around and couldn't see any others - there are a lot of hardenbergia in the area that the leaves can be superficially confused with.

Mike wrote:

30 May 2022

Sorry about that. I must have been lucky with the ones I dug. When there are lots of different plants around I scrape the stems and apply glyphosate, but I didn’t know if you could do that.
Plants on Oakey Hill possibly spread from the old School of Horticulture (now Featherston Gardens) in Weston. I reported some from there in 2017 and assume they were removed.

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